Contract Law

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*The pl always sues in his/her capacity of promisee
*The consideration is that which the promisee must demonstrate to the court that he/she exchanged to the promisor for their promise
Must take this decision path initially to get one’s bearings in the actual case.
Identifying the promise and dispute will tell you who the parties are – will coincide.

Too often students do not know where to begin with a problem.  Must orient oneself as per above.

*A promise of consideration is as good as consideration for this purpose.

In the eyes of the law, for this purpose, the law is prepared to treat the promise of something as equivalent to consideration – which is why it can be that my promise to convey my car to you for $1000, and your mutual promise to pay me $1000 for title to my car, gives rise to a binding agreement.

*Consideration is always a bargained-for detriment to the plaintiff-promissee
•    Always; bargained-for; detriment
•    Bargained-for is not just any detriment that counts as consideration.
o    It must be a detriment that was part of the bargain.
o    Ex:  In Dalhousie, the buildings (though a detriment) were not bargained for.
•    Something for something – an arrangement.
•    Consideration is always a bargained-for detriment.
•    **”Always”:  will come back to this word in this statement.

*Past Consideration is no consideration.

P 264
*Consideration need not be adequate;
or, the law does not inquire into the adequacy of consideration.
•    But, law does look at the sufficiency of consideration.
•    By adequacy – we mean the equivalence of the exchange; the quantum; quantity
•    Ex:  Arguing that selling one’s $10,000 car to another person for $1000 – the court does not allow us to go back and examine the adequacy of the arrangement.
o    If one is prepared to part from one’s property for a given price, then the value is simply seen as subjective; as in the appetite of the contractor.
•    By sufficiency (quick and dirty distinction between the two), we mean the ‘substance’ as opposed to the quantity.
o    Comes up in a surprising number of cases.
o    Means the consideration must partake of the substance of things that the law is prepared to accept as consideration.
•    Obvious example is moral consideration.
•    Cannot enforce moral considerations.
•    Past consideration does not count as sufficient consideration either.
•    Means that for something to be considered consideration, it needs to be of the substance of things that the law is willing to look at as consideration.
•    Mere detriment is not sufficient consideration – only bargained-for detriment.
•    Non-bargained-for reliance on a promise does not count as sufficient reliance.
•    SO, the law does not look at the adequacy of the consideration, but does require that it be sufficient
o    Means that the law doesn’t care how much consideration is involved, as long as it is consideration.

Past Consideration is no consideration
o    Implies a reference to something that is present.
o    The ‘something’ that is present is the promise.

Eastwood v. Kenyon
o    The husband undoubtedly made the promise, but this is not enough.
o    What did Eastwood exchange to Kenyon?
o    The consideration was rendered to Sarah a long time before her husband made the promise (or likely even knew her).
o    Could simply say that consideration is always a bargained-for detriment, and there was none of that here.
o    Can also say here, more particularly, that past consideration is not consideration.

o    Eastwood v. Kenyon is the case where consideration ceases to be simply ‘a word’.  It is a watershed in giving ‘consideration’ its modern meaning.
o    Goes to having a technical meaning in the law.
o    Para 9, page 267 – Lampleigh v. Brathwait (1615) – “the leading case on the subject…”
o    Distinguishable from Eastwood and Kenya
o    In E. v. K., have 1) Eastwood’s spending, then 2) Kenya’s promise
•    (1) had already been done before (2) came along.
o    In L. v. B., there are 3 acts:
•    Facts:  braithwaite killed someone, and was sentenced to hang.  At the time, those who were sentenced to hang were in fact not hanged.  They were usually pardoned (either conditionally or unconditionally).  Braithwaite told Lampleigh to go to the King and lobby for a pardon.  This is Act (1).
•    Next sig thing that happens (2), is that Lampleigh does attempt to find the court, to lobby it.  It takes him awhile, but he does it – successfully.
•    (3) – Braithwaite promised Lampleigh compensation
•    In this case, the court said that braithwaite’s promise was enforceable.
•    Said that Lampleigh’s actions were consideration.
o    In Eastwood, the judge says that Lampleigh v. Brathwait was distinguishable from a past-consideration scenario.
o    Says that in L. v. B., the consideration was implicit in the original request.
o    (3) is implicit in (1).
o    P 267 – Hobart C.J. says that a mere voluntary courtesy will not have a consideration to uphold a promise.
o    If someone offers someone something as a courtesy for something already done, then the consideration is already in the past, and not-binding.
•    Ex: ‘b’ mows ‘a’s’ lawn.  ‘A’ offers ‘b’ $20 as compensation.
o    If the courtesy were moved at the request of the party who made the promise, then it is binding.  Then, it is not naked (nudem pactum) – but couples itself with the suit before…
o    This means that if, for example, ‘a’ asks ‘b’ to mow their lawn, ‘b’ mows the lawn, and then ‘a’ promises to pay $20 – the promise for $20 can be interpreted as implicit in the original request.
•    The coupling is through an implication.
•    It is implicit that one is not asking for a gratuitity.  This is, of course, much clearer in the realm of business as opposed to friends or neighbours.
o    [Aside:  Remember that juries determine questions of fact, judges determine questions of law.]

p 282.  Guiding Transaction Adjustments
o    a pre-existing legal relationship, that the parties wish to adjust.
o    How is this accomplished in a way that ‘sticks’?
o    Ex: ‘a’ promises ‘b’ to sell his car for $1000.  ‘B’ says yes.
o    ‘A’ regrets selling for too little, so ‘B’ agrees to up the price to $1200.
o    Often times, this would result in an amendment  – cross out $1000, write in $1200, and both parties initial.
o    Had a living contract, and decided to adjust it.
o    The question is whether this perfectly intuitive action is actually legal…
•    Does this actually result in a legal obligation to pay the $1200.
•    No.
•    This is very likely not legal.

Stilk v. Myrick [1809]
•    Napoleonic wars
•    Embargoes on Britain forced them to go far-afield for materials such as timbre.
o    In this case, there is a contract of hire for a vessell.
o    £5/month for the sailors.
o    2 sailors desert at Cronstadt (now Finland, then Russia).
o    The captain promised the other men that, were the places not filled, they would have the deserters’ wages split amongst them.
o    The places proved impossible to fill, and the remaining 9 crew worked the ship back to London from what is now Finland.
o    The captain, upon their return to London, would only pay the £5.
•    Garrow, for the masters of the ship, was one of the first famous lawyers – known for his appeals to juries
o    Garrow argues that if this sort of action were permitted, crews could extort captains to pay them more, or they would allow ships to sink during emergencies, etc.
o    Judges say that the deal is in fact unenforceable because the sailors gave the captain no consideration.
•    At this time, the answer to the question “Why can’t one sell oneself into slavery?” changed.
•    The trad answer was that it was against public policy.
•    Around this time, the answer changed to ‘beause there was no consideration’ – the property of the slave becomes the property of the master.
•    The law was becoming more theoretical.
o    The sailors who remained with the ship were already legally bound to do so.
o    Those who remained were bound by the terms of their original contract to do their utmost to bring the ship safely to its destination.
o    Therefore, the sailors were only promising to do their pre-existent legal duty – this does not make up new consideration for a new bargain.
o    A promise to do that which is already one’s legal duty is not sufficient to form consideration.

Gilbert Steel Ltd. v. University Construction Ltd.
o    The promise being sued on is the promise to pay an increased rate for the steel beams.
o    What consideration did Gilbert Steel give to University Construction Ltd. in exchange for this promise?
o    G.S. alleged that they agreed to give a good price on the second building in exchange for this agreement to pay an increased rate now.
•    2 problems:  i) too vague;  ii) doubt that it was agreed up (even if it was mentioned)
•    Does not work as consideration
o    The delivery of the steel is the obvious consideration.
•    Why is it not?
•    They were already obliged to provide this steel, as part of the original agreement.
•    There is not detriment here.
•    This is why they switched to the “good price” arguument.
o    Pl.’s lawyer argued that the consideration of the oral contract was the mutual abandonment of the prior agreement.
•    Variation scenario – does not work unless one has a mini-contract to change an already existing contract, which in itself requires consideration.
•    If they had decided to call the whole thing off, leaving them (at least for a millisecond) contractless, and entered into a new contract, then that would be binding.
•    Why is it binding to agree to call a contract off?
•    Each side is sustaining the bargained-for detriment of releasing the other side from their obligation.
•    Releasing another from an obligation is a detriment.  Here it is also a bargained-for detriment.
•    It is binding.
•    “Recision + new contract” analysis – this would work.
•    “variation” will never work, unless it is that mini-contract to vary.
o    Recision + new contract is the argument that Mr. Morphy makes here.
•    Wilson J.A. says that this is perfectly legitimate, but that there is no evidence to support the idea that this is what the parties believed they were doing.
•    How does one know whether a particular action is variation or recision?
•    very difficult.
o    This is why the correcting-and-initialing is likely not legal.
o    The editors of our text portray this case as one of the worst decisions ever made.
o    The article on page 297 is by one of the editors – Barry J. Reiter.

Williams v. Roffey Bros and Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd.
o    Very similar case
o    Another contract case.
o    Another case where the project was half-finished.  Promised more to finish the project – how could this be binding?
o    Very rare in English C.A. for all three judges to write (as in Canada).
o    In this case, all three write.
o    Ever rarer for all three to write when they agree – they do in this case.
o    This is something different about this case…
o    Agree that this is enforceable, but are obviously so uncomfortable with enforcing it that they take a stab at explaining it.
o    Each of the three say that they are not overturning Stilk v. Myrick.
o    Say that it still stands for something.
o    Facts:  Roffey Bros have a contract with the municipality whereby they need to have the repairs completed by a certain date.
o    The pl. was a carpenter.  Def. was supposed to make progress payments to the plaintiff.
o    By april 9 1986, Pl. had completed the work on the roof, and first repairs to all 17 flats, and the second repairs on 9 flats.
•    Defendants had made interim payments of £16,200
o    By end of March, pl had run out of money
•    Roffey Bros. approach them and offer more money
•    Williams still went insolvent – had the audacity to sue Roffey Bros.
•    The fault was of Williams for putting in an unrealistic bid.
•    Had Roffey bros. over a barrel, due to the time restrictions on the other contract.
•    Under orthodox analysis, the plaintiffs already had a duty to finish the flats.
•    By promising again to do so for more money, they have insufficient consideration.
o    Where is the consideration that the judges find?
o    What the court has always required is that the pl. promisee exhange a legal detriment to the promiser.
o    In Hamer v. Sidway, in the real world, the kid was benefitting from not smoking, drinking, gambling but in the eyes of the law, giving up ones rights to do something is a detriment.
o    This case acknowledges the diff between a practical benefit and a legal benefit.
o     A practical benefit is not one that the law would normally recognize
o    at the end of this case, the practical benefit turns out to be the legal benefit.

Para 15 – page 303
o    Judge says that Roffy Bros was in fact deriving practical benefits from Williams completing the project at the new price.
o    Keeping Williams on the job should have been to the Roffy Bros benefit, as they did not have to try to find new contractors if that were even possible.
o    Says that the underpining of the rule in Stilk v. Myrick was to save masters from economic duress.
o    P 305 – para 22
o    Propositions
o    The obvious objection to these propositions is that consideration is a bargained-for  detriment
•    What new detriment did Williams sustain?  None.  They are already bound.
•    This judge ignores this.  Says that it is enough that it is a practical benefit to the promisor.
•    Bell thinks the judge is responsible for an enormously significant improvement in the law that is not based on sound theory.
o    Judge #2 – Russell L.J.
o    Says that it does not overturn stilk and myrick.
•    Sure…
o    S v M is not about a promised gift, despite what he says.
o    What he says it stands for bears no relation to what was in the case.  This is a trick.  It is a manipulation of the common law.
o    Judge #3 – Purchas L.J.”
o    Also says not overturning Stilk v. Myrick
•    Takes a different approach – changes the def’n of consideration away from detriment
•    Calls this the modern approach (para 33)
•    Note “Economic Duress”

While this case may be a good decision, it cannot possible be commensurate with contract theory.

For Friday:  finish cases on this page of syllabus

Consideration:
•    Number of plausible ways to look at the different types of agreements that the law will enforce
o    In common law, we enforce almost none of these
o    Consideration:  The type of promises that we enforce end up coinciding with what would be looked at if we said we would enforce “serious promises”, etc.
•    Requires evidence of an exchange.  If an exchange occurs, it ought to be fairly conspicuous.
•    Has an elemet of formality.
•    Although it is at first glance eccentric and non-intuitive, it does largely yield the same approach as if we had taken a more intuitive approach.
•    Analytical vocabulary for consideration as a problem:
o    Must approach the problem in a certain way.
•    Who is the offerer, who is the offeree?
•    Analytical tools involved the vocab of promiser and promisee – not the equivalent of offerer and offeree, in any way shape or form.
•    They are incommensurate ideas.
•    At the formation of a contract, we can conceptualize the formation of a contract as an exchange of promises.
•    If each party is receipt of a promise from the other, then we have two promisers and two promisees
•    This is the formation perspective.
•    But by the time time has passed and we have entered litigation, only one of the orginally dual promiser/promisee relationships is relevant.
•    One promisee sues one promiser.  This is the promise that the promisee must show that they gave consideration in exchange for.
•    This is the promise that has allegdedly been broken.
•    This tells us what the relevant consideration was.
•    Must show the court that the relevant consideration was giving.
•    In a contracts case, the plaintiff is always the promisee; the defendant is always the promisor.
•    The relevant consideration is the one that the promisee must show that he provided to the promisor in exchange for his promise.
o    Our legal system only enforces bargains.
o    In our legal system, a promise of consideration is as good as consideration – this explains how offer/aceptance can result in a binding contract.  The law says that a promise of title (for example), in exchange for money (for example), is equivalent to having made the exchange.
o    There is virtually no reason, but the alleged reason is that the promise is as good as consideration, because the alternative fulfilling the promise is to be sued (and have the court impose payment).
•    Great conclusion:  The relevant consideration is the one that the pl. promisee must show that he/she promised to exchange with the def. promisor in exhange for the defendant’s promise.
•    Dalhousie – one cannot look at just anything and decide that it’s consideration.  Dal built buildings and hired teachers (in theory) on the basis of this pledge, and yet it was not consideration.
•    The point made by the scc is that Dal did not bargain the building of buildings.  It received Arthur’s promise, and then built buildings in response.  It did not exchange the building of buildings for the promise.
•    Cannot be made in reaction to a promise – that is not consideration.  “Here’s a plane ticket.”  “Wow.  Thanks.  I’ll give you some money.”  This is not consideration.  It is a reaction.
o    The essence of consideration is that it won’t be such unless it was exhanged in return for the promise.
•    P 357:  “To hold otherwise would be to hold that a naked, voluntary promise may be converted into a binding legal contract by the subsequent action of the promisee alone, without the consent, express or implied, of the promisor.”

Hamer v. Sidway
•    Is a case where one might at first thing that there was not consideration, but yes indeed there was.
•    The “assignee” in this case – a right is a species of property.  The nephew has sold his $5000 claim to some money-lender (likely for a much lesser value).
•    Family promises – not addressed, though this was between family, and at a family gathering where they had no doubt been drinking…
•    The facts of the case is not contested.
•    What is contested is the existence of consideration on the nephew’s part.
•    Uncle’s estate argues that he didn’t receive any benefit, but in actuality the nephew benefitted.
•    The law does not recognize “moral consideration” – could not argue that the uncle received the pleasure of seeing his nephew do well.
•    It is enough that the nephew gave up his legal rights based on the promise of his uncle.  This is enough of a basis to constitute consideration.
o    Consideration does not have to be a benefit traded to the promiser – it can be simply a detriment, loss, or responsibility given, suffered, or undertaken by the other (p 258).
o    Can shorten the benefit concurred / detriment sustained formulation to simply detriment sustained.
•    There is not case where the defendant promisee did not sustain a detriment.  All benefit conferred cases are also detriment sustained.
•    In typical contracts case, what one gives up with typically benefit the other.  However, this is not a universal rule.
•    Can take a formula in currie v. Misa and collapse it into “detriment sustained”
o    This is broader.
•    P 261 is a little more concise.  It is, however, useful to take it to the next level.

Eastwood v. Kenyon
•    A case of the guardian versus the husband.
•    Sarah Eastwood left orphaned.  Guardian borrowed money to spend on her upkeep during her infancy.
•    At 21, Sarah got married.  First promised to compensate her guardian.
•    New husband then made the same promise.  Does not complete this promise
•    Must identify the promise being sued on.
o    The relevant consideration is the one that the the guardian bargained to the husband.
o    Only thing that the guardian could say is that he took care of Sarah during her infancy.
o    Could not have actually been made in consideration of the husband’s promise, as it pre-dated the promise by many years.
o    The thing which is consideration was sustained long before the promise being sued on.  Was already in the past.  Could not have been an exchange or bargain as the law demands.  The guardian is remedyless.

For tomorrow:  will return to Eastwood v. Kenyon – will do entire next section of outline. – 3 cases..

Waltons Stores (Interstate) Ltd. v. Maher

Facts:

•    Negotiating towards a lease
•    Waltons leads the prospective landlord to believe that there will be a lease.
•    As such, the landlord does what they have to do get the new building up on time for Waltons
•    New building 40% completed when Waltons walked away.
•    Landlord sues, alleging in effect that Waltons promised to enter into the lease, and that they should be estopped from walk away.
•    Council for Waltons held that there was no promise there.
•    Council had to construct the promise – this was done satisfactorily
o    However, looked like a mere promise
o    Reliance was non-bargained for.
o    Looks like Dalhousie
•    We are in the realm of promissor estoppel.
o    Though cast widely in High Trees, was reigned in in Combe v. Combe.
o    Promisee here is suing to have the promiser esoptted
o    Offensively…
o    Court acknoledges all of this
o    Promissory estoppel usually used as defensive equity, not offensive.
o    Concern is that if we allow ppl to sue on promises alone, then what is left of the doctrine of consideration
•    If we allowed ppl to use estoppel offensively, then in effect, we could be doing the very thing that Dalhousie was accused of doing – allowing the recipient of a promise to retrospectively convert what was meant to be a gratutious promise into an enforceable promise just by relying on it.
o    Would be getting into the business of enforcing gratuitous promises.
•    Will we require the doctrne of consideration or a seal to enforce promises offensively, or is there some other basis?
•    Para 22
•    Normally say, as per combe v. combe that we will not enforce promises offensively
o    However, these is a small area of jurisprudence where we do enforce promises based on nothing more than reasonable reliance.
o    Promissory estoppel
o    If the promisor has promised the promissee an interest in land (real property) and the promissee has relied on this to their detriment, then the law can enforce the promise.
•    They look at the U.S.
•    Second-class enforcement
o    Promise enforced to the extent that the promissee relied on it
o    Only so much enforcement as necessary.
o    Get the value not of the [ticket to florida].  Get the value of the [preparations one made for the trip].
o    In the U.S., the restatement (NOT A STATUTE) is accepted in some states.
•    Accepted generally that one can sue on estoppel.
•    Para 25, 26
o    Start making the point – (26) – make an important point
•    Having just said that in the U.S. they allow Ps to sue on the basis of nothing but an estoppel, they then observe that the words of s. 90 of the restatement, the substance is of promise enforcement.
•    Whereas they say in the Anglo-Australian context that estoppel is not about promise-enforcement, but about injustice prevention (prevention of unconscionability).
•    So does vary in its emphasis with American contract theory.
•    Links U.S> restatement of estoppel with obsession with consideration, and have in common promise enfircement.
•    Even estoppel section cast as if it were about promise enforcement (even though as we look at it (through high trees) that we look at the victim, not the promisor’s promise).
•    It is not that we so love promises that the law will enforce promises no matter what – it is that estoppel has at its root (for us) injustice prevention.
•    Then say something new:
o    Say that promise breaking itself is not unconscionable
o    Say that even the promissee’s reasonable reliance, per se, does not create unconscionability.
o    Why is this not unconscionable?
•    People in our culture just know that the law does not enforce gratuitous promises.
•    People know that reliance on such a promise is at one’s own risk.
o    Something more is required…
•    Making distinction between the sword and the shield
•    In trad. Estoppel, all one needs is a promise intended to be relied upon and relied upon.
•    Now say that to use estoppel offensively need more than this.
o    Whether they intended to create two sets of criteria for estoppel, they seem to have done so.
o    What is this ‘something more’ that is required.
•    In this case, say there are two special factors
o    1)  Sense of urgency because of the tenant’s timeline
o    2)  The tenant’s inaction when it knew the landlord was acting on the promise.
•    Say that the inaction acted as encouragement
•    In this case, doing nothing effected doing something.
•    Note para 25 – “The object of the equity is not to compel the promisor to fulfill the promise, it is to avoid the detriment which, if the promise goes unfulfilled, works to the detriment of the promissee.”
•    Conclusion:
o    The court does estop the tenant from denying that it has a lease with the landlord
•    (though of course they do not have a lease)
o    here, estoppel used as a sword.
o    “Is this just one of many semi-interesting cases which languih unnoticed, or is this considered to be important in the common law?  What is Waltons status in Canada?
Has enough time passed that we can conclude that the idea went nowhere?
Will want to, before the exam, reasearch the case – not whether it has been followed.
Is the hurdle so high (the two conditions) for unconscionability that the cases have just not come up since?

Formality
•    page 226
•    Begin with famous article by a famous U.S. legal realist from 1930s.  German origins.
o    Fuller – we have snippet of introduction
o    Taxonomy on variety of purposes of legal formalities.
o    Not all formaities serves all of these purposes
o    Identification of the three poss. functions
•    Formalities:  No set list – anything that the law requires you to do to have a binding contract:
o    Writing
o    Witnesses
o    Written
o    Handshake
o    Handshake with witnesses
o    Gov. licence, like a stamp
o    A seal
o    Witnessed by a notary
•    Fullers 3 functions:
o    Evidentary:  Something like a written contract generates physical evidence of what the agreement was.
•    A handshake, on the other hand, does not have much evidentary functions (unless, perhaps, it was in front of witnesses)
o    Cautionary:  the more elaborate the formality the law requires one to go through, the more the compeltion of it causes a person to acknowledge the importance of their agreement.
•    Ex:  If the law requires that an agreement be made in front of a lawyer, enforces the seriousness of the legal agreement.
•    To the extent that the formality is awkward or ritualistic, the parties have time for second-thoughts.
o    Channelling:  There could be the sort of formality which, if envoked, would tell the parties that they had the sort of agreement which the courts would enforce.
•    Suppose there were a way to make a gift promise enforceable – such as going to the gov. for a certain type of stamp.
•    A stamped contract then would be channelled into the realm of enforceability
•    We have this in regards to seals.
•    Seals put promises into the realm of enforceability.
•    The only formalities in the common-law tradition are the seal, and writing.
•    The seal is a positive formality.
•    If one seals one’s promise, the promise is destined for a certain outcome – it adds a positive result.
•    Writing is a negative formality.
o    In a certain narrow set of contracts, the law says that the contract can’t be enforced unless it is written.  This is negative – WON’T be enforced unless it is written.
o    The seal is the pos formality.
•    In other words, the common-law tradition puts very little emphasis on formalities
o    Fuller argues that the doctrine of consideration in itself is a type of formality.

Seals
•    A SPECIAL contract
o    This is the term
•    Also called a formal contract – in distinction from a normal contract – a “simple contract”
•    A deed – an instrument under seal.
•    The major significance is that the promissee of this promise has alonger period under which to bring action to enfore the promise, than if the promise were not under seal.
•    Under ordinary promise, have 6 years
o    BUT, under seal, in most provinces (except Ontario), the victim has 20 years with which to sue.
o    Good for the victim, but inconveneintly long – memories fade.
•    Rarely see lawsuits after so long
•    What constitutes a seal?
o    In the past, a seal was a blob of melted wax, into which something was impressed to make it obvious that it was one’s seal.
o    No seal is a seal unless it is one’s personal seal.
o    A blob of wax beside someone’s name is not a seal unless it is adopted as a seal and can be identified as such.
o    A thumbprint would do it.
•    Modern approach:
o    To have it pre-printed on the form – probably intended that the client be handed a seal to put on the document – can be purchased at stationary shops
o    Question arises:  What if the client does not do this?  What if the area to place the seal is there (page 250 – suggest L.S. is the latin for the place for the seal)
•    Is this then the seal?
•    This would defeat the cautionary function.
•    This comes up in the courts, and they go back and forth on the answer.
•    Question is, is this the client’s seal?
•    Doen’t count unless it is someone’s seal.  The client must have done something to adopt it.
•    Argument that signing beside it is enough for adoption
•    Courts reluctant to come to an answer on this.
•    Note recommendations of Ontario commission
•    In Foakes v. Beer
o    Hint at a side-light of the seal – if the parties made a contract under seal, it was the law that both sides could nt vary the contract, except by another contract under seal.

Next day:  will look at writing requirements just notes page 385