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mutual mistake: a standalone construct

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Contract law

the doctrine that a contract may be avoided when both parties, or in narrower cases one party, shared a basic mistaken assumption about the exchange.

In contract law, mutual mistake refers to the doctrine that a contract may be avoided when both parties, or in narrower cases one party, shared a basic mistaken assumption about the exchange. This meaning comes from Rasmusen (1993) in The Journal of Legal Studies.[1]

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References

Rasmusen, E., & Ayres, I. (1993). Mutual and Unilateral Mistake in Contract Law. The Journal of Legal Studies, 22(2), 309-343. https://doi.org/10.1086/468167

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