Parties exchange drafts of a contract and before signing one party surreptitiously substitutes provisions in the copy to be executed. Some might call this "promissory fraud", but as Justice William Dato explains in an opinion published yesterday,...
Howsoever Denominated, This Was Not Promissory Fraud
Posted on January 04, 2022
Transfer To Non-Existent Corporation Held To Be A Transfer Nonetheless
Posted on August 10, 2017
Sometimes, the law is just weird. The case of PGA West Residential Ass'n, Inc. v. Hulven Int'l, Inc., Cal. Ct. App. Case No. E064270 (Aug. 9, 2017) is weirder than most. The lawsuit alleged that the defendant had tried to insulate the equity in his...
