Contract Law Basics
Consideration
• Promises – the law does not enforce promises per se.
o Promises of gifts are not enforceable.
o The law considers the spirit of altruism rare.
• What criteria should we use to categorize the subset of promises that attract legal enforceability?
o What would be a sensible way to do this?
o The promises which the law should […]
Contract Law Cases
Agreements to agree cannot be enforced without a mechanism.
Silence (something left out of a contract) is not as bad as an agreement to agree. Blanks can be filled-in in various ways
Walford v. Miles
• Addresses a question – whether an agreement to negotiate is enforceable
• Is there such a thing as an enforceable agreement to negotiate?
• […]
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