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1
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What is discharge?

A

The contract can be discharged if the parties have not fulfilled their obligations as agreed

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2
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What are the 3 types of discharge?

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Performance
Frustration
Breach

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3
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What is the strict rule for discharge by performance?

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The performance must be complete and exact

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4
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What is the case for the strict rule of performance?

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Cutter v Powell

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What are the 4 ways discharge by performance can be avoided?

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Prevention on full performance
Acceptance of part performance
Divisible contracts
Substantial performance

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6
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What is prevention of full performance?

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One party prevents the other from carrying out the contract

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7
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What is the case for prevention of full performance?

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Planche v Colburn

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8
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What is acceptance of part performance?

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On party doesn’t have to complete the entire contract as the other party has consented

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9
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What is the case for acceptance of part performance?

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Sumpter v Hedges

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10
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What are divisible contracts?

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When there are separate parts of the contract and non completion of one part doesn’t breach the entire contract

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11
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What is the case for divisible contracts?

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Richie v Atkinson

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12
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What is substantial performance?

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A part has been done substantially (done enough)

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13
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What is the case for substantial performance?

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Darkin v Lee- not substantial

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14
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When is time a condition for discharge by performance?

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Expressly stated
Critical for contract
Not on time and party has insisted on another date

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15
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What is the case for time in performance?

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Union Eagle v Golden

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16
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What are the 4 remedies for discharge by performance?

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Quantum meruit- can claim for work
Repudiation
Specific performance
Damages

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17
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What is the strict rule for frustration?

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Bound to perform even if an intervening act made it impossible

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18
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What s the case for the strict rule for frustration?

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Paradine v Jane

19
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What is the current rule for frustration?

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If there is an unforeseeable event which means the contract can no longer be performed neither party has to fulfil

20
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What are the 3 elements of frustration?

A

Impossible to complete
Illegal to perform
Radical change

21
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What can frustration not be applied?

A

Self induced
Less profitable or more difficult to complete
Foreseeable risk/ mentioned in contract

22
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What are the 3 ways a contract can be impossible to complete?

A

Subject matter destroyed
Subject matter unavailable
Person unavailable

23
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What is the case for subject matter destroyed?

A

Taylor v Caldwell

24
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What is the case for subject matter unavailable?

A

Jackson v Union Marine

25
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What is the case for person unavailable?

A

Condor v Baron Knights

26
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What does it mean if an obligation is not illegal to perform? (frustration)

A

Changes in the law make the contract illegal to perform

27
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What is the case for illegal to perform?

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Denny, Mott, Dickson v James

28
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What does it man if there is a radical change?

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If the main purpose is based on an event that cannot take place= frustrated

29
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What is the case for radical change?

A

Krell v Henry

30
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What does it mean by self induced?

A

The party is in control

31
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What is the case for self induced?

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Maritime v Ocean Trawlers

32
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What does it mean by less profitable or more difficult to complete?

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Not frustrated if they find fulfil because it was more difficult or less profitable

33
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What is the case for less profitable?

A

Paris v Fareham

34
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What is the case for foreseeable risk?

A

Amalgamated v John Walker

35
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What are the 2 types of breach?

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Actual
Anticipatory

36
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What is actual breach?

A

Has already happened

37
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What is anticipatory breach?

A

It is going to happen

38
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What are the 3 options for actual breach?

A

Continue and sue
Repudiate
Repudiate and sue

39
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What is the case for actual breach?

A

Rice v Great Yarmouth

40
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What are the remedies for discharge by frustration?

A

Common law
Statute

41
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What are the remedies under common law?

A

Contract automatically terminated and future obligations don’t have to be fulfilled
Anything done or paid is lost- Chandler v Webster

42
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What are the remedies under statute?

A

Covers what happens after an event occurs

43
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What act is the remedies under statute?

A

Law reform (frustrated contracts) act 1943

44
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What does the Law Reform act 1943 say?

A

S.1(2):
Money already paid is recoverable
Any money that has to be paid no longer has to
Oder compensation to be paid
S.1(3):
Compensation ordered for any valuable benefit one party may acquire

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