Breaking Rules Case Study

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It seems to be a conventional wisdom that breaking rules that has been established and recognized is disgraceful and hateful and people who broke the rules are believed to be lack of reliability and responsibility, but is this always true and are they definitely wrong for doing so? In reality, sometimes breaking rules is a defence rather than an offence resulting from dishonorable desire, in which case breaking rules should no longer be blamed or despised, instead, rule breakers are eligible for the justice and equity that they deserve. Having said that, the two promisors, which are the airline and the owner, in both cases have been in the similar circumstance as described above should be granted justice and equity, thus, both of the promisees’ …show more content…

“When a party makes a promise to another, either within or outside the context of a contract, where that promise places an obligation on the party but where that party does not receive anything in return (no consideration), then the promise is said to be gratuitous…As a gratuitous promise has no consideration, it will in most cases not result in any obligations on the party making the …show more content…

Ltd. et al. v. Letain in 1963 Supreme Court of Canada. The optionee Conwest Exploration Co. Ltd. was promised an extended deadline for processing internal arrangement for incorporation by the optionor Letain. With the gratuitous promise from the optionor, the optionee carried on their steps towards incorporation. Later on, the optionee was told to revert back to the original date stated in the contract, thus they applied for relief on the grounds of equitability. (Marston, 2008, pp.92-93) As a result, “The court found that that it would inequitable to revert to the strict interpretation of the contract and therefore estopped the optionor from enforcing the date specified in the contract.”(Marston, 2008, pp.92-93). Likewise, the contractor in the second case will be refused to enforce the conditions in the contract and thus will not be able to terminate the contract as

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