General Info Flashcards

(1) Is there an enforceable contract (2) If so, what are the terms and obligations (3) Has anyone breached (4) What remedies / recourse is available?

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Define Contracts

A

legally enforceable promises

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Three elements that form a K

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Offer, Acceptance, Consideration

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3
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Specific Performance

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Order the parties perform the contract

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Expectation Damages

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Put non- breaching party in the position they would expect to be in had the breaching party performed

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Reliance Damages

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Put non-breaching party in position they were in immediately before they entered into contract

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Restitution Damages

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Make breaching party return the value of benefits they received (as if a contract were never made)

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Expectation Damages can be measured either by

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Cost of Completion or Diminution of market value

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Why are expectation damages typically the largest awarded?

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The damages are typically going to be larger if we are putting someone in the position as if the contract was completed.

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9
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Three Limitations on Recoverable Damages

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foreseeability certainty avoidability

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10
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Courts uphold liquidated damage clauses when

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They are not penalty clauses.

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Policy Arguments for Specific Performance

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Where goods, land, or personal services are unique, we have no way to compensate the person adequately with monetary damages.

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12
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Recision (Definition)

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Cancellation of a K

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When can recession be used ?

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What are the reasons that a party may ask for restitution in a K breach?

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Expectation damages are unforeseeable, Restitution is the greatest amount of damages available

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15
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Three types of specific performance

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land, goods, personal services

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16
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Quasi-Contracts

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Implied K that allows for one party to be compensated by the other if the judge sees fit

17
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Unjust Enrichment

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A party profiting from wrongdoing or
one party confers a benefit onto another and receives nothing in return.

18
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Tacit Agreement Test

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Requires the ∆ was given notice of special circumstances and assented to bearing the risk of those damages

19
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Tacit Agreement Test Validity

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Minority Rule; Rejected Almost everywhere & by UCC (but not Arkansas, see Morrow)

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Damages are foreseeable if

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they follow from the breach (a) in the ordinary course of events or (b) as a result of special circumstances that the breacher had reasons to know §351

21
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Default Rule on Attorney’s Fee

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Not recoverable

22
Q

Proves lost profits with reasonable certainty

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testimony of experts, analysis of similar/comparable, market price

23
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Avoidability Doctrine / Duty to Mitigate

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Rest. 350 requires reasonable efforts to mitigate [Luten bridge]

24
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Ads are

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are usually not offers (Harsh, but see Lefkowitz)

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policy considerations in Contract Law.
Economic Efficiency, Retributive Justice, Corrective Justice, Distributive Justice * Policy is important, especially if the law is unclear or conflicting, but not a free pass to ignore the rules.
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NGUYEN V. BARNES AND NOBLE
Courts will apply the Embry Case in ECommerce Contracts
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What are the questions you ask when you approach an Issue Spotter?
A. This a sale of goods ---> UCC only (unless silent, then go to restatement/ common law) B. This is another type of K (1) Is there an enforceable contract (2) If so, what are the terms and obligations (3) Has anyone breached (4) What remedies / recourse is available?
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What do you do with mixed contracts (bits like a good bits like personal service?)
What is the thing at issue primarily concerned with Is the issue about the goods or about the persons services. Case: J.O. Hooker & Sons [Cabinets]