Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Terminating Contracts
- Accord and Satisfaction
Anmerkungen:
- substitute one contract for another
- Actual Damages
Anmerkungen:
- damages DIRECTLY related to breach
- anticipatory breach
Anmerkungen:
- notified that a party to the contract will not fulfill their part of the contract prior to the required time of the fulfillment
- assignee
Anmerkungen:
- party to whom the right is transferred
- assignment
Anmerkungen:
- legally transferring your RIGHTS in a contract
- assignor
Anmerkungen:
- party who transfers the rights
- breaching a contract
Anmerkungen:
- wrongful failure to perform one or more promises in a contract
- compensatory damages
Anmerkungen:
- award for only injuries suffered - nothing more
- complete performance
Anmerkungen:
- all terms have been carried out properly and completely
- consequential damages
Anmerkungen:
- damages that DO NOT flow directly from the breach
- delegation
Anmerkungen:
- incidental damages
Anmerkungen:
- reasonable expenses that arise INDIRECTLY from breach of a contract
- injunction
Anmerkungen:
- court order that prevents a party from performing an act
- liquidated damages
Anmerkungen:
- anticipated damages that agreed upon prior to contract being signed
- mutual release
Anmerkungen:
- each side releases the other side from the contract
- nominal damages
Anmerkungen:
- award to prove legal injury but no damages caused
- punitive damages
Anmerkungen:
- damages in excess of losses suffered in order to punish a party for breach
- satisfactory performance
Anmerkungen:
- law requires that services be completed in a satisfactory manner
- speculative
Anmerkungen:
- damages awarded not on fact but on expectations from contract fulfillment
- statute of limitations
Anmerkungen:
- individual states have a time limit on lawsuits to be fined
- substantial performance
Anmerkungen:
- slightly less than full performance
- tender of performance
Anmerkungen:
- wrongful alteration
Anmerkungen:
- any altering or changing of a contract will discharge parties to the agreement