Promissory Estoppel Sample Clauses

Promissory Estoppel. No oral statements, representations, or understanding by any person can change, alter, delete, add, or otherwise modify the express written terms of this Contract.

Promissory Estoppel. Pursuant to the settlement of the claims alleged in the class and collective action, Plaintiff Xxxxx Xxxxxxx will release and dismiss his claim for violation of Labor Code § 201 with prejudice within two (2) business days of his Counsel’s receipt of the Service Payment.

Promissory Estoppel a promise to do or not to As to its relation to delay do results in estoppel, provided that the promise was intended to be relied upon, was relied upon Concerned with the fact of delay; Concerned delay; with the effect of and refusal to enforce it would sanction fraud or As to nature Elements injustice (Xxxxxxxxx, 658). Question or matter of time; Question permitting enforced of the inequity claim to of be

Promissory Estoppel. An equitable claim that prevents a party from denying the existence of an assumption as to a state of affairs, in circumstances where the denial would be unconscionable 🡪 Austotel (1989) o Therefore is change of position = no valid consideration 🡪 if this is unconscionable there will be valid consideration • If representation was made and in reliance of that a party suffered a detriment it would be unconscionable to not follow through on the promise • Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd (1947) 🡪 promise, reliance, detriment • Giumelli v Giumelli (1999) 196 CLR 101 at 121; o The relief is not based upon there being a promise or representation, but rather upon the expectation that the promise or representation generated How to prove Promissory Estoppel: the 6 Probanda • Waltons Stores (Interstate) Ltd v Xxxxx (1988) 🡪

Promissory Estoppel. There was not a separate Count in the Second Amended Complaint based on promissory estoppel. Rather, in Count 2 – the Count for declaratory judgment – Xxxxxxx/Ellicott averred that “[f]urthermore, any attempt by Xxxx and the Department to amend or modify the deadline or cure provisions of the October 15 Agreement after May 24, 2014, without the agreement of Plaintiffs would be impermissible, invalid and void or voidable for lack of consideration and otherwise as well as under equitable principles of promissory estoppel and detrimental reliance.” No factual allegations specific to that 6 Although the only provision in the October Consent Agreement that Xxxxxxx/Ellicott seeks in this case to enforce is the May 23, 2014 time limitation on constructing the wall, recognition of its status as a third-party beneficiary would have given it the right to challenge the exercise of DHCD’s discretion in interpreting, or agreeing to a minor modification of, other provisions as well, including a determination by DHCD that Xxxx was operating the structures on its property in compliance with the City zoning code or whether the wall was substantially complete at any particular time. averment are to be found, a point made by Xxxx both in the Circuit Court and in this Court. The doctrine of promissory estoppel or detrimental reliance is treated in the Restatement (Second) of Contracts, §90(1) as an example of a contract without consideration. It is captioned as “Promise Reasonably Inducing Action or Forbearance” and provides, in relevant part: “A promise which the promisor should reasonably expect to induce action or forbearance on the part of the promisee or a third person and which does induce such action or forbearance is binding if injustice can be avoided only by enforcement of the promise. The remedy granted for breach may be limited as justice requires.” (Emphasis added).

Promissory Estoppel if she performed her part of the bargain, and in so doing irretrievably changed her position.

Promissory Estoppel. Estoppel now can be used as a ‘sword’ rather than merely a ‘shield’: W. v G. Silence may amounts to a representation which lead to the operation of promissory estoppel: Waltons Stores (Interstate) Ltd v Xxxxx

Promissory Estoppel. If a promise should be enforced, it will be enforced even where it lacks all of the elements of a contract. Where voluntariness of the agreement is missing. It is done to avoid an injustice. Xxxxxxxx x. Xxxxxxxx Co. (p. 104) Elements of promissory estoppel: A promise, which The promisor should reasonably expect the promisee to rely on. The promise is relied upon. It must be enforced to prevent injustice. Note 1: There must be a reasonable reliance by the promisee. Note 2 (p. 109)- A promise must exist that would make the promisee suffer detriment.

Promissory Estoppel. A. A theory that sometimes protects a promisee, who has relied to his detriment on the promise, even though consideration or other elements or enforceability are not otherwise present. PE has its strongest expression where the lack of consideration threatens to make a promise unenforceable.