The influenza epidemic of 1889-90 inadvertently produced one of the greatest legal precedents in the doctrine of contracts. Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company involved litigation over a £100 ...

The Court of Appeal have affirmed the decision of Hawkins, J., in Carlill v. The Carbolic Smoke Ball Co., and the case will henceforth be the leading authority as to the validity of contracts by ...

The University of Chicago Press publishes more than 90 scholarly journals that cover a wide range of disciplines, from the humanities and the social sciences to the life and physical sciences. In ...

In 1892 she caught flu, despite the makers of the "carbolic smoke ball" promising £100 if their preventative failed her – the court case changed the law forever ...