Contract Law Past Consideration
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 […]
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 […]
Construction Contract Law
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 […]
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