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*Anticipatory Repudiation: an inability or refusal to perform, before due; treated as a breach, allowing the non-repudiating party to bring suit immediately.
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*Bankruptcy: discharged if debtor obtains an order of discharge by the bankruptcy court
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*Commercial Impracticability: performance can be accomplished only under unforeseen and unjust hardship; the contract is discharged under the Code and the Restatement.
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*Dependent vs. Independent Covenants: where a contract involves mutual covenants (promises), discharge depends on whether the covenants are mutually dependent; only dependent duties are discharged
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*Destruction of Subject Matter: discharges contract if it occurs without the promisor's fault.
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*Express Condition: contingency explicitly stated in the contract.
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*Frustration of Purpose: principal purpose of a contract cannot be fulfilled because of a subsequent event.
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*Impossibility: performance of contract cannot be done.
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*Material Breach: nonperformance that significantly impairs the injured party's rights under the contract and may discharge the injured party from any further duty under the contract.
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*Statute of Limitations: after the statute of limitations has run, debt is not discharged, but a creditor cannot bring an action against debtor.
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*Subsequent Illegality: if performance becomes illegal or impractical as a result of a legal change, the duty is discharged.
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*Substantial Performance: incomplete performance that does not defeat purpose of the contract; does not discharge injured party but entitles him to damages.
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Accord and Satisfaction: substitution of new duty under a contract (accord) and the discharge of the prior contractual obligation by performance of the new duty (satisfaction).
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Assignee: party to whom contract rights are assigned.
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Assignor: party making an assignment.
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Breach: - a wrongful failure to perform mandatory duties under a contract.
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Certainty of Damages: damages are not recoverable beyond an amount that can be established with reasonable certainty.
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Compensatory Damages: Contract damages placing the injured party in as good a position as if the other party had performed; equals loss of value - cost avoided + incidental damages + consequential damages.
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Concurrent Conditions: conditions that are to take place at the same time.
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Conditions Precedent: an event that must (or must not) occur before performance is due.
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Conditions Subsequent: an event that terminates a duty of performance.
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Consequential Damages: not arising directly out of a breach but arising as a foreseeable result of the breach
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Cost Avoided: loss or costs the injured party avoids by not having to perform
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Creditor Beneficiary: a third person intended to receive a benefit from the agreement to satisfy a legal duty owed to her.
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Defenses Against Beneficiary: in an action by the intended beneficiary of a third-party contract to enforce the promise, the promisor may assert any defense that would be available to her if the action had been brought by the promisee.
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Defenses of Obligor: - may be asserted against the assignee.
Notice - is not required but is advisable.
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Definition of a Condition: an event whose happening or non-happening affects a party's duty to perform under the contract.
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Definition of Assignment: voluntary transfer to a third party of the benefits arising from a contract so that the assignor's right to receive the performance is terminated
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Definition of Delegation: transfer to a third party of a contractual obligation.
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Delegatee: third party to whom the delegator's duty is delegated.
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Delegator: party delegating his duty to a third party.
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Donee Beneficiary: a third party intended to receive a benefit from the contract as a gift.
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Duties of Parties: Delegation - delegator is still bound to perform original obligation, unless there is a novation or release.
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Election of Remedies: if remedies are not inconsistent, a party injured by a breach of contract may seek more than one; however, a party may not get a double recovery.
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Foreseeability of Damages: potential loss that the party now in default had reason to know of when the contract was made.
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Implied-in-Fact Conditions: contingency understood by the parties to be part of the agreement, though not expressed.
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Implied-in-Law Conditions: contingency not contained in the contract but imposed by law; also called a constructive condition.
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Incidental Beneficiary: - third party whom the two parties to the contract have no intention of benefiting by their contract and who acquires no rights under the contract; the benefit is mere happenstance. Incidental beneficiaries lack standing to sue and cannot enforce any rights.
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Incidental Damages: arise directly out of a breach
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Injunction: court order requiring a party to do, or prohibiting a party from doing, a specific act.
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Liquidated Damages: a set amount, reasonable under the circumstances, agreed in advance by the parties to a contract.
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Lost Value or "Profits": value of promised performance minus value of actual performance
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Mitigation of Damages: injured party may not recover damages for loss he could have avoided by reasonable effort.
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Most contract duties may be delegated, except:: 1.duties that are personal
2.duties that are expressly nondelegable
3.duties whose delegation is prohibited by statute or public policy
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Most contract rights are assignable, except:: 1.assignments that materially increase the duty, risk, or burden upon the obligor
2.-assignments of personal rights
3.-assignments expressly forbidden by the contract
4.assignments prohibited by law
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Mutual Rescission: an agreement between the parties to terminate their respective duties under the contract.
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Nominal Damages: a small sum ($1 or similar) awarded where a contract has been breached but the loss is negligible or unproved.
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Novation: traditionally, a substituted contract involving a new third-party promisor or promisee.
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Novation: contract, to which the obligee is a party, substituting a new promisor for an existing promisor, who is consequently no longer liable on the original contract and is not liable as a delegator.
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Objective Impossibility: no promisor could perform; generally discharges the promisor.
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Obligee: party to whom a duty of performance is owed under a contract
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Obligee: party to whom a duty of performance is owed by the delegator and delagatee.
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Obligor: - party owing a duty to the assignor under the original contract.
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Occurrence: a condition that requires an event outside the control of the party is fulfilled when it occurs.
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Performance: the most common way a contractual duty is discharged is by performance. That is, the party does what it is obligated to do.
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Performance: a condition that is the requirement that one party perform prior to the other is fulfilled upon that performance.
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Prevention of Performance: one party's substantial interference with or prevention of performance by another; is a material breach and discharges the other party
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Reformation: court order correcting a written contract to conform with the original intent of the contracting parties.
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Reliance Damages: contract damages placing the injured party in as good a position as she would have been in had the contract not been made.
Typically involves compensation for expenses incurred in preparation for or performance under the contract, or for lost opportunities. The sole remedy in promissory estoppel situations
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Requirements of an Assignment: include intent but not consideration.
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Restitution: Restoration of injured party to position s/he was in before the contract was made, generally by returning value given to other party. Available to:
1.Party Injured by Breach - if other party breaches the contract by nonperformance or repudiation
2.Party in Default - for any benefit conferred in excess of the loss caused by the breach
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Revocability of Assignment: - if assignee does give consideration, assignor may not revoke the assignment without the assignee's consent; otherwise may be revocable.
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Rights of Assignee: the assignee stands in the shoes of the assignor.
Notice - is not required but is advisable.
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Rights of Intended Beneficiaries: an intended donee beneficiary may enforce the contract against the promisor; an intended creditor beneficiary may enforce the contract against either or both the promisor and the promisee.
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Specific Performance: court order requiring breaching party to render promised performance.
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Subjective Impossibility: the promisor but not all promisors cannot perform; does not discharged
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Substituted Contract: a new contract accepted by both parties in satisfaction of the parties' duties under the original contract.
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Third-Party Beneficiary Contracts: a contract in which one party promises to render a performance to a third person (the beneficiary).
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Unenforceable Contracts: Restitution is appropriate if the contract is not enforceable due to statute of limitations or statute of frauds.
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Vesting of Rights: if the beneficiary's rights vest, the promisor and promisee may not thereafter vary or discharge these vested rights.
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Voidable Contracts: - a party who has avoided a contract is entitled to restitution for any benefit conferred on the other party
