If, prior to a sale of classical sculpture or an Old Master painting, the object is described as meeting a certain standard of condition, when in fact it fails to do so, the buyer could instead have a remedy for
misdescription under section 13 SGA 1979, as discussed in the preceding section, which might be a more straightforward claim.
Primrose, "Food forensics: using DNA technology to combat
misdescription and fraud," Trends in Biotechnology, vol.
(150.) Butler, supra note 136, at 189 ("If taken as the grounds of feminist theory or politics, these 'effects' of gender hierarchy and compulsory heterosexuality are not only misdescribed as foundations, but the signifying practices that enable this metaleptic
misdescription remain outside the purview of a feminist critique of gender relations.").
These cover a wide range of issues including microbiological contaminants, mycotoxins, process contaminants, inorganic contaminants, organic environmental contaminants, allergens, health claims,
misdescription and adulteration and food labelling.
You are not going to believe this!; deception,
misdescription and materiality in trademark law.
Foster J accepted that the production of these documents constituted prima facie evidence that the awards were purportedly made pursuant to the arbitration clause in the charter party and that Beach Civil (notwithstanding the
misdescription in the charter party) was the charterer under the charter party.
1988) (focusing on whether the
misdescription is likely to affect the decision to purchase); see also In re Spirits Int'l, N.V., 563 F.3d 1347, 1353 (Fed.
In so arguing Kripke (following Donnellan) assumed a view of the referential use which involved the possibility of
misdescription. For example, someone uttering (16),
(3) If so, is the
misdescription likely to affect the
In Campbell, the claimant had publicly denied ever taking drugs and thus the Law Lords unanimously agreed that the press had the right to correct this
misdescription. (180) The question of personal responsibility on the part of the claimant also rears its head in Mosley v.
Caveat emptor, and I imagine no leeway was given for
misdescription. Speed was of the essence, as we are reminded by a notice in the South Australian Register of 29 December 1900:
The topics include main causes and consequences of the decline of diadromous fish in western European inland waters, the final report on the economic valuation of water hyacinth as an environmental problem on Uganda's fresh-water resources and its effects on key economic activities, the artisanal fleet of Andalusia in Spain as a case study of occupational safety policies in the small-scale fishing sector, the effects of thermal processing on the quality of canned fish, a preliminary study of elasmobranch by-catch in pelagic pair trawl in the Adriatic, complex system tools for a complex ecosystem, and the development of monoclonal antibodies to combat fish
misdescription and fraud.
