What is the test for establishing that a contract is enforceable?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Rehability Occupational Therapy (Toronto) Inc. v. Rehability Occupational Therapy Inc., 2005 CanLII 36270 (ON SC):
Thus, the outcome of this action depends upon the most basic of legal principles about the formulation of a contract, and the action is another example of the much litigated contract law principle associated with the case of Van Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg v. Alexander, [1912] 1 Ch. 284.
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