Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Contract Law
- Accpetance
Anmerkungen:
- Unqualified Willingness by the offeree to go along with the offer
- Benefits
Anmerkungen:
- Something that a party was not previously entitled to receive
- Bilateral
Anmerkungen:
- Consideration
Anmerkungen:
- Exchange of benefits and detriments by the parties to an agreements
- Capacity
Anmerkungen:
- Legal ability to start a contract
- Death
Anmerkungen:
- Detriments
Anmerkungen:
- Anything lost or given up
- Duress
Anmerkungen:
- Overcoming someones freewill by use of force or by threat of force
- Economic Duress
Anmerkungen:
- Threats to a person's business or income
- Express
Anmerkungen:
- Contract statemen that may be written or oral
- Emancipation
Anmerkungen:
- Severing of the parent child-relationship
- Firm Offer
Anmerkungen:
- A written offer for goods that states the period of time during which the offer will stay open
- Forbearance
Anmerkungen:
- Not doing something that you have the right to do
- Fraudulent Mispreresentation
Anmerkungen:
- Party to a contract deliberately makes an untrue statement of fact
- Implied
Anmerkungen:
- Contract that comes about from the actions of a party
- Illusory Promises
Anmerkungen:
- Clause or wording that allows party to escape from legal obligation
- Genuine Agreement (Assent)
Anmerkungen:
- A valid offer has been made by the offeror, and a valid acceptance has been exercised by the offeree
- Insanity
Anmerkungen:
- Offeror is declared insane
- Legality
Anmerkungen:
- Mentally Incapacitated
Anmerkungen:
- Lacking the ability to understand the consequences of his or her contractual acts
- Mirror Image Rule
Anmerkungen:
- Terms of the acceptance must match exactly (mirror) the terms of the offer
- Mutual mistake (Bilateral Mistake)
Anmerkungen:
- Both parties are mistaken about an important fact
- Offer
Anmerkungen:
- Proposal by one party to another in a written contract where either parties cannot or do not wish to state the amount
- Nominal Consideration
Anmerkungen:
- Token amount in a written contract where either the parties cannot or do not wish to state the amount
- Offeree
Anmerkungen:
- Offer made to this person
- Offeror
Anmerkungen:
- Option
Anmerkungen:
- The offeree gives the offeror something of value in return for a promise to keep the offer open for a set period of time
- Oral
Anmerkungen:
- Created by two or more people speaking to eachother
- Rejection
Anmerkungen:
- Price Fixing
Anmerkungen:
- Competitors agree on certain price rangers within which they will sell their products
- Restrictive Covenant
Anmerkungen:
- Agreement not to compete in a region for a set period of time
- Past Peformance
Anmerkungen:
- An act that has already been peformed cannot be consideration in a contract
- Revocation
Anmerkungen:
- Statue of frauds
Anmerkungen:
- Requires that certain contracts be in writing to be enforced
- Unconscionable
Anmerkungen:
- So grossly unfair or oppressive that it would shock the conscience of the court
- Undue Influence
Anmerkungen:
- Unfair and improper pressure within a relationship of turst
- Unenforceable Contract
Anmerkungen:
- Contract that court will uphold, usually because of some rule of law