9 Best Practices on Contract Vetting
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9 Best Practices on Contract Vetting

If you look at two different agreements for similar purposes, let's say two sale purchase agreements or two credit agreements, you will find them to be similar to quite an extent. On the surface, drafting agreements seems like an easy job once you know the format and essential clauses.

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Intricacies of the Employee Contract
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Intricacies of the Employee Contract

One of the first agreements that people enter into as adults mostly include employment agreement. It is natural to have limited knowledge of how the agreements work, let alone the  employment agreement. This gives rise to a certain fear while signing because well, the agreements tie you into liabilities. In general practices, the employees are restricted by such agreements to mandatorily serve for a certain amount of time. There are other obligations as well, which are brought upon the employees through the employment agreement. It is important to analyse any agreement before signing it. Therefore, we have decided to quickly explain the important parts of every employment agreement, which is currently in practice with modifications according to different industries. If you look for certain clauses in the document, you shall be able to get a hold of liabilities the agreement is looking to put over you and make an informed decision.

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Letter of Undertaking: How does it Work?
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Letter of Undertaking: How does it Work?

Letter of Undertaking (hereinafter referred to as LoU) can said to be a sort of guarantee that is issued by a banking entity to the concerned person for attaining short term credit from the overseas branch of an Indian bank. Such LoUs are not issued against retail transactions, but are employed in business or trade transactions.

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Freelancing
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Freelancing

Freelancing is working on contractual basis for various companies rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employee. They have the freedom to choose their assignments or projects and company they would like to be associated with.

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Essentials of Valid Contract
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Essentials of Valid Contract

A contract is the foundation of a civilised world. The law relating to contracts in India is contained in Indian Contract Act, 1872. A Contract is simply an agreement between two or more persons to do something. Each contract creates a binding duty on the contracting parties. The Indian Contract Act deals with the enforcement of these rights and duties upon the parties in India.

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Rights and Liabilities of Landlords
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Rights and Liabilities of Landlords

Before renting a property, the landlord must create a rent agreement with the tenant. This agreement outlines the rights and responsibilities of both parties. Various laws govern the landlord-tenant relationship and provide ways to handle disputes. The landlord can evict the tenant on certain grounds, such as breaching the agreement or causing a nuisance.

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Rights and Duties of Tenants
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Rights and Duties of Tenants

Renting a place in India can be a very tedious task. With the spurting growth in job opportunities and the need for a better lifestyle, people have started to move out from their hometowns and have started to occupy cities which offer them good opportunities. Therefore, the landlord-tenant legal relationship has become a big topic lately. The need for clear grounds for this relationship is quite an essential one because both parties need to feel secure about their end of the transaction, as shelter is one of the most basic requirements.

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Types of Contract
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Types of Contract

A contract is simply an agreement between two parties where an offer and acceptance to do or refrain from doing a particular thing along with some form of consideration or remuneration to be given on the fulfillment of the promise.

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Website Development Agreement
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Website Development Agreement

A website development agreement is defined as a legally binding agreement between the client having a principal place of business and the developer. The parties’ intending to enter into the agreement exchange views relating to the basic concept of the client’s website and accordingly the developer prepares a draft of the website functionality and appearance. Where the service includes the development of a computer program such contracts are to be treated as contracts for the sale of goods.

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Consultancy Agreement
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Consultancy Agreement

A consultant is someone who has immense knowledge about any particular field say for example software development or human resource and could be hired by the company to solve their problems on a contractual basis. They are not included in the purview of employee and hardly provided any employee benefits. They basically work as an independent contractor so no principal and agent relationship could be established. They provide advice or other services as demanded by a company for a particular project within the said period of time.

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Sale of Business Agreement
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Sale of Business Agreement

In this capitalist world, constant economic transactions are taking place. One of these important transactions is selling your business. While the sale of your business sounds like a simple enough deal, there is a lot of basics which has to be hammered out in this comprehensive document.

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Freelance Agreement: Important Clauses
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Freelance Agreement: Important Clauses

A freelance agreement is an agreement in which people are free to work at their own liberty for their clients. According to the dictionary meaning of freelance, it is serving one or more companies at a time on contract basis as opposed to working for a single company.  The person who offers services to other people/companies is a freelancer. They do not work for one person but serve more than one person at a time on their own terms and conditions. Generally, they have expertise in a certain field/matter.  E.g. if you visit a studio the person who clicks your photo is a freelancer. He is not your employee though he served you as he has expertise in photography, he served you on his own terms and conditions and he is not obliged to work for you. You are his client.  There is a freelance agreement between you and the photographer for a photo.

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Work Space Sharing Agreement
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Work Space Sharing Agreement

A work space sharing agreement is a binding contract for the usage of work space on a sharing basis between two parties. Through this the two parties that is the owner and the tenant of the space can share the working space by paying an amount of fees in exchange for subletting the co-working space.

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Franchise Agreement
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Franchise Agreement

A franchise agreement is one through which a Franchisor, the owner of a business model, provides his business model and his brand name to a Franchisee for use. The terms and conditions of the usage of the franchisor’s business model and his brand name by the franchisee are clearly and precisely laid down in a franchise agreement so as to avoid any and all ambiguity that may arise. A franchise agreement ensures that both the franchisor and the franchisee are aware of all the conditions of the contract and agree to the same.

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Joint Venture Agreement
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Joint Venture Agreement

A Joint Venture is defined as any arrangement whereby two or more parties co-operate in order to run a business or to achieve a commercial objective. In other words, Joint Venture is a business agreement between two or more companies whereby the business resources of the partners are mutually shared and put to use.

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Employee Non-Disclosure Non-Compete Agreement
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Employee Non-Disclosure Non-Compete Agreement

Employee non-disclosure and non-compete agreements are a type of restrictive covenants. These agreements are negative in nature as they restrain the employees’ actions. Employee confidentiality agreements legally restrain the employees from disseminating any confidential information shared with them during the period of employment. A non-compete or a non-competition agreement restrain the employees from participating in the same trade as the employer for a period of time, after the termination of employment. These agreements are entered to protect the business interest of the employer.

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Basics of Assigning Copyright
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Basics of Assigning Copyright

Copyright is an intellectual property, which is meant the creative people around the world. It is not a tangible right but is a proprietary right and can be disposed-off in a similar manner. With the copyright registration, nobody is entitled to use a person’s creation without the prior permission of the creator. Thus, the law provides a right to the owner of the copyright to transfer the ownership of the copyright to a third party for the optimum utilization of the same, for the benefit of the common mass. For the transfer of the same there is a deed agreement known as copyright assignment deed.

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Employee Non-Disclosure Non-Compete Agreement
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Employee Non-Disclosure Non-Compete Agreement

Usually, an employee while performing his duties with the company comes across trade secrets and confidential information. To prevent the passing off of such confidential information and trade secrets, an agreement is entered by an employer with his employee commonly known as Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) or Confidentiality Agreement. It is a legal contract between employer and employee by which employee agrees not to disclose information outlined by the agreement.

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