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Almost every civil claim requires money damages, i.e. the money you lost due to the other party's wrongdoing. It's not like a criminal prosecution where attempted murder or burglary, etc. is just as much of a crime as a succesful murder, burglary, etc. If you had actually broken a tooth, you might have a case for the sost of the dental work, and maybe for pain and suffering, As it is, all you've lost is, arguably, the price you paid for hte chicken....
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Almost every civil claim requires money damages, i.e. the money you lost due to the other party's wrongdoing. It's not like a criminal...
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Probably not. Your claim would probably be barred by the parol evidence rule, which prohibits evidence of any prior oral agreement which contradicts the written one. Basically, the law considers your contract to be what you sign. You're required to read it and, if it is not what you agreed to, don't sign it. If the rule were different, if anyone could challenge a contract based on a claim that they were told something else orally, there would be a flood of litigation and the certainty of written contracts would be seriously undermined....
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Probably not. Your claim would probably be barred by the parol evidence rule, which prohibits evidence of any prior oral agreement which...
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The general rule is that when a gift is given in contemplation of marriage, and the donee breaks off the engagement, the gift is revoked and must be returned. Thus, the ring doesn't belong to your eldest son's ex, but to him (in my view the ring belongs to him, not his brother who financed its purchase, but the eldest son owes its purchase price to his brother) and he can sue her for its return or its value (or the price she sold it for, whichever is higher) if she sold or otherwise disposed of it....
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The general rule is that when a gift is given in contemplation of marriage, and the donee breaks off the engagement, the gift is revoked and must be...
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