Contract Law: Essential Elements, Types, and Formation
The Contract in General
It is the expression of intent and also is a concurrence of two or more persons to form in them a commitment to resolve or edit an existing one.
The contract is an agreement whereby both parties mutually, or just one of the two, promises and obligations to the other to give or not to do something a certain situation. It is noteworthy that the contract is a legal agreement. It is also the largest source of obligations, and we find it daily. It manifests itself as a great tool
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Topic 1: Brief Definition of the Legal System Preceding the High Middle Ages
1. The High Middle Ages: History and Law
A) Visigothic Law
The Visigoths began to penetrate the Iberian Peninsula in the early 5th century and became holders of power until the arrival of Muslims in 711. Their law was based on custom and evolved from the 5th to the 7th century. They were interested in using the Roman law of the previous stage due to:
- In this law, the lawyers helped to justify autocratic forms of government
Family Law in Spain: Marriage, Partnerships, and Legal Rights
Question No. 1
Mariola and Isidore have lived together as unmarried partners for twenty years in Salamanca, the birthplace of both. They have two children: Xavier, who is twenty and in his third year of journalism studies, and Ana, fifteen, who is studying second ESO. Javier is adopted; to conceive Ana, Mariola and Isidore had to resort to in vitro fertilization. Isidore is forty-five and Mariola is forty-three. Isidore’s net income currently revolves around 4,500 euros per month. Mariola abandoned
Read MoreUnderstanding Interregional and International Private Law in Spain
Interregional Law
Interregional law governs interconnected private legal situations with different legal systems within one legal state. Whether or not interregional law is a function of the legal state model in question is debatable. In Spain, the competence for the development of interregional law is vested exclusively in the central state. However, regional governments have developed rules of interregional law, some of which have been appealed to the Constitutional Court. Nevertheless, some interregional
Read MoreSociedad Anónima (SA): Formation and Key Principles
Concept of Sociedad Anónima (SA)
The origin of the Sociedad Anónima (SA) is linked to companies founded in the seventeenth century for trade in the East and West Indies. The great geographical discoveries of earlier centuries opened new trade routes and created a favorable climate for mounting expeditions and commercial enterprises. Due to their size and large risks, these ventures could not be undertaken by traditional, quasi-family companies. Hence, the idea of building companies with capital
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T9: Legal Relationships
The Nature of a Legal Relationship
The law concerns itself with human relations, specifically those legal relationships that hold special significance for the social or political order, or for orderly coexistence. A legal relationship is defined as a situation of mutual and reciprocal connection between two or more persons, governed by the rule of law. This relationship is caused by a fact, either natural or produced by a voluntary act, that aims at the realization of certain
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