UNIVERSIDADE EDUARDO MONDLANE

FACULDADE DE DIREITO
Inglês Jurídico
Exercises on Contract Law
June 3, 2022

EXERCISE 1: COMPLETING A COMPANY’S FIRST BOARD MEETING

Complete the minutes of the company’s first board meeting by selecting the most appropriate
word from the list below to place in each correspondingly numbered space in the draft
minutes on the following page.
1. (a) restitution 5. (a) collated
(b) resolution (b) convened
(c) resolved (c) assembled
(d) determined (d) accumulated
2. (a) employed 6. (a) given
(b) appointed (b) provided
(c) selected (c) catered
(d) commissioned (d) supplied
3. (a) classified 7. (a) intentions
(b) head (b) proposals
(c) official (c) resolve
(d) registered (d) resolutions
4. (a) disclosed 8. (a) declared
(b) indicated (b) proclaimed
(c) presented (c) affirmed
(d) represented (d) publicised

Now name yourself as the company’s solicitor by entering your own name in box ‘A’ of
paragraph 2 of the minutes of the board meeting!
MAPLINK LIMITED
Minutes of the first meeting of the board of directors of Maplink Limited (‘the company’)
held at 44 Princess Diana Walk, South Kensington, London, W2 3SL on 15 May 2006 at
10.00 a.m.
Present: Thomas Shapiro
Dimitris Yavaprapas
In Attendance: Gisela Wirth

1. Thomas Shapiro and Dimitris Yavaprapas accepted office as directors of the

company. It was resolved that Thomas Shapiro be appointed Chairman of the board.
2. It was [1] ________________that [A] ___________________________be appointed
solicitor to the company.
3. It was resolved that Gisela Wirth be [2] __________________secretary of the company.
4. It was resolved that the [3] ____________________office be at 44 Princess Diana Walk,
South Kensington, London, W2 3SL.
 5. It was resolved that the quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the
directors should be two directors personally present.
6. A draft notice of an extraordinary general meeting of the company was [4] ___________
to the meeting and approved. It was further resolved that such meeting be [5] _________
and that notice of this be [6] ______________forthwith to the shareholders.
7. The meeting thereupon adjourned. Upon resumption it was reported that the [7] _______
set out in the notice of the extraordinary general meeting had been passed respectively as
ordinary and special resolutions of the company.
8. Upon there being no further competent business the meeting was then [8]________
closed by the Chairman.

EXERCISE 2: PREPARING A COMPANY’S FIRST SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETING

Complete the following minutes of a company (MAPLINK LIMITED)’s first shareholders’
meeting by deleting each word in bold and writing alongside each deletion in the spaces provided
the proper form of those words
Minutes of an extraordinary general meeting of the Company held at 44 Princess Diana Walk,
South Kensington, London, W2 3SL on 15 May 2006 at 11.00 a.m.
Present: Thomas Shapiro
Dimitris Yavaprapas
In Attendance: Gisela Wirth

1. NOTICE AND QUORUM

It was note _______________ [1] that due notice of the meeting had been given to all members and
that a quorum was present. The meeting was therefore declaration _________ [2] open.
2. APPOINTMENT OF FURTHER DIRECTOR OF THE COMPANY
The chairman proposition ________ [3] the following resolution as an ordinarily____ [4] resolution.
‘That Kadir Salleh be appointed a directorship [5] of the Company’.
On a show of hands the chairmanship_______________ [6] declared the resolution passed
unanimity _______________ [7].
3. CHANGE OF COMPANY NAME
The chairman proposed the following resolution as a specially _______________ [8] resolution:
‘That the name of the Company be changed to Travelgraph Limited’.
On a showing _______________ [9] of hands, the chairman declared the resolution passed
unanimously.
CLOSE OF MEETING
There being no further business, the chairman declared the meeting closure_____________ [10].
___________________________

Chairman
EXERCISE 3:

Read the handout COMMON LAW AND EQUITY and answer the following questions:

1. What is stare decisis?

2. Mention the means of avoiding precedent

3. What is the purpose of equity?

4. Mention three examples of equitable maxims

5. In the event of a conflict between a common law rule and an equity rule, which one should
prevail?