A Judge’s Guide to Whim and Fancy, or Best Efforts Clauses; Seller Had to Have Actual Knowledge of Default, Not Deemed Knowledge of Agent, to Be Liable Under Contract; Note Re: Legally Speaking 332 #333

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By Gerry NeelyB.A. LL.B. In one case, the conditional clause in a Contract of Purchase and Sale required the buyer to satisfy himself as to the tax implications of Canadian/USA/international law upon his purchase of Canadian property. The buyer lived and worked in California, and the purchase monies from an inheritance were to be transferred