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Balfour v Balfour: Informal Agreement Insights by Aneefa Zahir is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This article examines the concept of "intention to create legal relations" established in the 1919 case Balfour v Balfour. It discusses how the courts use this concept to determine whether to enforce agreements between parties. However, the article argues that in assessing intention, courts are actually driven to impose their own views on what should be enforced based on fairness. The principle is mainly used by courts to keep contract law out of domestic cases except where it has a useful role, and to only

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Aneefa Zahir

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