The U.S. Supreme Court’s property rights jurisprudence always has had a Delphic quality. During this century, its seminal expressions have been Justice Holmes’ enigmatic “too far” language in Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon and Justice Brennan’s reliance on the amorphous conception of “investment-backed expectations” in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. City of New York. The Court’s 1999 decisi...

The principle of good faith is an important guideline for contractual behaviour that permeates civil law systems. This paper examines how this principle is applied during the negotiation stage of a contract. Select examples from civil law literature of precontractual duties of good faith, and of precontractual behaviour that is deemed to be contrary to good faith, are discussed. This is followe...

The good faith principle requires contracting parties to be honest as well consideringtheir partners in performing their contractual duties. In the event, contract clauses are insufficient protect interests of innocent party a breached contract, said may rely on ensure fair. However, applying principles construction contracts is difficult task. By nature, unique due fact that (Client and Contra...