Warranty By Numbered Company – Bankruptcy – Licensee’s Liability for Failure to Advise Seller to Take Security for the Warranty; Private, Not Public Rights of Way and Paragraph 9 of the Contract Of Purchase and Sale #317

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By Gerry Neely B.A. LL.B What is a licensee’s duty of care to a client who is negotiating the purchase of a commercial property from a numbered company that agreed to give an unsecured warranty? This was the issue in an Ontario case where the licensee drafted the warranty clause in the contract he prepared