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social contract

Medical practice The implied understanding between physician and Pt that the former provides the best possible care in a truthful and timely fashion, in exchange for the latter's trust. See Doctor-patient relationship.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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In this section, I explain Hayek's contractarian basis for adopting a principle of holistic social justice.
Hayekian Social Justice
forceful contractarian language are also cause for concern.
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Delaware's contractarian approach to fiduciary duties will be discussed further.
Un-Cabined Fiduciary Duties in Florida LLCs: The Common Law and Equity Opens the Door to Expanded Liability and the Manifestly Unreasonable Standard
better substitute contractual terms as envisioned by contractarian
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As Cox began his career, the "contractarian" revolution in corporate law loomed.
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This contractarian approach to the corporation influences how corporate law is evaluated.
Oppression-reducing Canadian corporate law to a muddy default
Institutional intermediaries are especially important now that the disintermediated capital market, on which the original contractarian account is premised, has disappeared.
How corporate governance is made: the case of the golden leash
In sum, either the contractarian position is viciously circular, or the social contract, needing no meta-state to enforce it, effectively becomes a self-enforcing anomaly.
Legal polycentrism, the circularity problem, and the regression theorem of institutional development
The contractarian account of fiduciary law is straightforward.
The false promise of fiduciary government
The analogous contractarian thinking is here no better at inducing value-enhancing creditor incentives.
A capital market, corporate law approach to creditor conduct
(168) This excerpt succinctly captures the heart of a contractarian's understanding (discussed supra Section II(B)(2)) and struggles with the idea of a unified entity, made up of numerous individuals, expressing a single idea--a concern which the majority implicitly rejected in coming to its conclusion.
Keeping the faith: how courts should determine "sincerely-held religious belief" in free exercise of religion claims by for-profit companies
Sen questions the Rawlsian contractarian account of justice, wherein negotiating parties are imagined to be equal, free, and independent.
Building common ground: going beyond the liberal conundrum
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