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· 5/15/1837

Abbott v. Hutchins

Citations

  • 14 Me. 390

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that “[a] party cannot be forced to arbitrate any dispute that he did not agree to arbitrate”
  • holding that the “existence of a contract necessarily implies that there has been a ‘meeting of the minds’ between the parties which the court can determine by looking to the intentions of the parties as expressed or manifested in their words or acts”
  • holding that the \existence of a contract necessarily implies that there has been a `meeting of the minds' between the parties which the court can determine by looking to the intentions of the parties as expressed or manifested in their words or acts\
  • “An obligation to arbitrate is based on assent and agreement.”
  • \An obligation to arbitrate is based on assent and agreement.\
  • no contract to arbitrate formed

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Judges: Weston

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