Contracts
Balfour v. Balfour
Court: K.B. Names: Facts: A husband and wife make an agreement that while the husband is away he will send the wife an allowance for her upkeep and the upkeep of their house and responsibilities. The husband ceases to do this and upon several moths decides that they should not see each other any more. The wife is suing. Rules: arrangements made between husbands and wives are arrangements of mutual promises not intending to have legal promises. They are not contracts because they were not intended to be contracts with legal ramifications upon the initial agreement. Issues: Does an agreement made between a husband and a wife constitute a contract? Does a contract have a prerequisite that two parties involved in the agreement intend to enforce the agreement through legal consequences? Holding: Courts ruled that there was not any contract. Overturned Reasoning: