Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Contract Law
- Acceptence
Anmerkungen:
- Benefits
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- something that someone gains with a positive effect
- Bilateral
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- Capacity
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- Consideration
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- Exchanging benefits for a agreement
- Counteroffer
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- to answer an offer with another offer
- Death
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- Detriments
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- Duress
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- Overcoming a persons free will with threats
- Economic Duress
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- Threats to a persons business or income
- Emancipation
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- severing a parent-child relationship
- Express
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- Firm Offer
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- a written offer for goods with a timer
- Forbearance
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- Not doing something that you have the right to do
- Fraudulent
Misrepresentation
Anmerkungen:
- Party deliberately makes a untrue statement
- Genuine Agreement
Anmerkungen:
- Valid offer a valid acceptence
- Illusory Promises
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- clause that allows a party to escape from legal obligation
- Implied
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- Contract that comes from the actions of a party
- Insanity
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- Offeror is declared insane
- Legality
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- Mentally Incapacitated
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- Lacking ability to understand the consequences of his actions
- Mirror Image Rule
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- Terms of acceptance must exactly match the terms of the offer
- Bilateral Mistake
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- Nominal Consideration
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- a hidden token amount in the contract
- Offer
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- A proposal from one party to another
- Offeree
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- Person receiving an offer
- Offeror
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- Oral
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- created by more than one person speaking to each other
- Option
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- gives something to put the offer on hold
- Past Performance
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- An act that has already been performed cannot be consideration in a contract
- Price Fixing
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- Competitors agree on price ranges
- Restrictive Covenant
Anmerkungen:
- Agreement not to compete in a region for a limited time
- Rejection
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- Revocation
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- Statute of Fruads
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- Requires that certain contracts be in writing
- Unconscionable
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- So grossly unfair that it would shock the court conscience
- Unenforceable contract
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- contract the court will not uphold
- Undue Influence
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- Unfair persuasive pressure within a relationship of trust
- Unilateral
Anmerkungen:
- promise by one person when the other performs a act
- Usury
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- interest rate is too high
- Unilateral Mistake
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- Valid Contract
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- Void Contract
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- Voidable contract
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- one party can get out of contract for legal reason
- Written
Anmerkungen:
- contract terms are written so both parties know the exact terms