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- Without the Power to Drink or Contract
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Edinburgh Law Review, January 2020, vo. 24, No. 1 : pp. 26-48
Without the Power to Drink or Contract
Warren Swain☼
☼Deputy Dean, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland. This article was largely written whilst a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge. I would like to thank the President and Fellows for their hospitality. Thanks to my research assistant, Don Lye
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Intoxication as a ground
to set aside a contract is not something that has proved to be easy for the law to regulate. This is perhaps not very surprising. Intoxication is a temporary condition of varying degrees of magnitude. Its presence does however raise questions of contractual autonomy and individual responsibility. Alcohol consumption is a common social activity and perceptions of intoxication and especially alcoholism have changed over time. Roman law is surprisingly quiet on the subject. In modern times the
rules about intoxicated contracting in Scottish and English law is very similar. Rather more interestingly the law in these two jurisdictions has reached the current position in slightly different ways. This history can be traced through English Equity, the works of the Scottish Institutional writers, the rise of the Will Theory, and all leavened with a dose of judicial pragmatism.
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