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General legal studies on questions relevant to individuals and companies in Jordan. Review your matter’s facts before relying on it professionally.

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Companies, contracts, and investment

Judicial principles and studiesCompensation and insurance

Contract Characterisation: Social Media Management and Marketing Consultancy as an Unnamed Contract

A social media management agreement with monthly payment for marketing advice and plans is treated as an unnamed contract rather than a construction/works contract. The study also emphasizes lack of proven damage and causation and limits on the judge's power to alter the claim's legal basis.

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Companies, contracts, and investment

Judicial principles and studiesContracts and obligations

Presentation of Invoices by Their Issuer and the Sufficiency of Evidence

A concise outline of a judicial dispute about whether invoices, an account statement and witness testimony suffice to oblige the defendant to pay, given the defendant's denial of a contractual relationship and of signatures.

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Companies, contracts, and investment

Judicial principles and studiesCompensation and insurance

Company Standing, Representation, Liquidation and Agency Issues

A brief summary of proof requirements for a company's legal status and representation, the effects of liquidation decisions and agency on claims for rescission or damages.

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Companies, contracts, and investment

Judicial principles and studiesCompensation and insurance

Claim limits: expert report, judicial warning, special power, and contractual relationship

This study summarizes how an expert report fixes claim value, the requirements for challenging a judicial warning, the validity of a special power, and proof of contractual relations and breach.

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Companies, contracts, and investment

Judicial principles and studiesCompanies and partners

General Partnership: Suit Against Partner-Representative and Characterization of the Relationship

This summary explains that naming a partner as representative directs the suit against the partnership, outlines res judicata prerequisites, and states appellate courts' duty to address appeal grounds. It notes res judicata was not established in the presented procedural history because no final judgment ensued.

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Companies, contracts, and investment

Judicial principles and studiesCompensation and insurance

Compensation for Void Contracts

The study recognizes a principle permitting damages for a void contract treated as a factual act under tort law, alongside ordering restitution to the pre-contractual state.

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Companies, contracts, and investment

Judicial principles and studiesCompensation and insurance

Education Expenses and Father's Liability: Proper Defendant and Source of Obligation

A brief summary of a legal rule that unifies precedent on the proper defendant and the source of obligation for children's education expenses, reversing the view that treated an unsigned father as a direct defendant.

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Companies, contracts, and investment

Judicial principles and studiesCompanies and partners

Attorney's Fees and Judicial Custodian's Power to Contract

Brief summary: A power-of-attorney agreement signed by judicial custodians during their appointment and within their authority binds the principal (the defendant company) if representation conditions are met; attorney's fees are due upon signing the agency and fee agreement unless the agent failed in his duty.

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Companies, contracts, and investment

Judicial principles and studiesCompensation and insurance

Interpreting Arbitration Clauses in Insurance Contracts and a Responsive Pleading Filed under Article (5)

An arbitration clause referring valuation disputes to arbitration confines arbitrators' jurisdiction to both entitlement and quantum of compensation. A responsive pleading filed pursuant to Article (5) of the Courts of Peace law may not be used to decide an arbitration referral request.

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Companies, contracts, and investment

Judicial principles and studiesCompensation and insurance

Compensation in Contractual Liability: Elements and Limits

A concise summary of the elements of contractual liability and limits on compensation, highlighting the distinction between realized and purely probabilistic damage and the privity constraint.

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Companies, contracts, and investment

Judicial principles and studiesTax and banking

Transaction Price, Customs Value, Foreign Invoices and Storage

A brief summary of principles for determining customs value in relation to the transaction price, treatment of company branches, storage issues, and requirements for bonds and scope of proceedings.

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Companies, contracts, and investment

Judicial principles and studiesCrime and penalties

Marine Insurance and Ship Escape: Plaintiff Standing and Prescription of Claim

A concise summary noting that only the contracting company may sue, that customs criminal proceedings do not bar a civil insurance claim, and that prescription can render a compensation claim inadmissible.