Agreement Of Necessaries

However, it is recognized that minors and those considered to be mentally handicapped may be able to enter into binding agreements when they acquire essential property for their subsistence or employment. [2] Contracts relating to needs (goods or services deemed necessary for ordinary subsistence) are therefore always legally binding. [3] Similarly, minors have the possibility of concluding employment contracts if the terms of such an agreement are of general use to them. [4] If this is not the case, they can choose to avoid the contract and return their property. Until the reform of the Companies Act 1989, companies were also severely limited in the range of contracts to which they could attach themselves as part of their purpose clause. . . .

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