BEDER UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Business administration
Course: Business law
Subject: Assignment
Date:
Dead line:
ASSIGNMENT WRITING GUIDELINES
a. You are required to answer ALL questions and complete the assignments.
b.
Your ideas that you present in the discussion should come from the literature of the
field.
c. You should cite all references to the assignment, written in proper with good grammar
and writing skills.
d. Number of page is between 5 - 15 pages only.
e. Any assignment with elements of plagiarism, copying, or similarities of content, or
sentences structure academic dishonors will not be given any mark. Quotes from authors
are allowed, but with acknowledgements to the authors.
GROUP ONE
PART ONE: QUIZ - ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS (5 marks)
1. Define law and mention its functions?
2. What is the difference between public laws and private laws?
3. Explain the difference between civil case and criminal case?
4. Explain hierarchy of laws in Somaliland?
5. Briefly explain two main sources of law?
PART TWO: CASES (10 marks)
You are required to answer ALL cases and explain each case with supported evidences.
1. Re Moore & Co. and Landauer & Co. (1921) A contract was for the supply of 3,000 tins of
canned fruit, to be packed in cases each of 30 tins. Part of the consignment was packed in
cases of 24 tins.
2. The parties contracted to buy a cargo of cotton to arrive “ex Peerless from Bombay”. Two
ships, both named “Peerless” sailed from Bombay – one arriving in October and the other in
December. The parties each intended that the contract should be in respect of the different
ships.
3. A offered to sell a farm for £1,000. B said he would pay £950, which A refused. B then
agreed to pay £1,000. A then refused this.
4. In Tufton v. Sperni (1952), P and D were both members of a committee to establish a Moslem
cultural centre in London. P was going to provide funds, and D induced him to buy D’s house for
the centre at a grossly high price.