Chapter End Questions Chapter 12-12.1‚ 12.3 Chapter 13-13.4‚ 13.5‚ 13.7 Chapter 14-14.3‚ 14.5 Chapter 15-15.2‚ 15.3‚ 15.4 12.1 Jerome is an elderly man who lives with his nephew‚ Philip. Jerome is totally dependent on Philip’s support. Philip tells Jerome that unless Jerome transfers a tract of land he owns to Philip for a price 30 percent below market value‚ Philip will no longer support and take care of him. Jerome enters into the contract. Discuss fully whether Jerome can set aside this contract
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Question 1 (b) The problem looks at whether the existence of contract entitled Albert to claim for a breach of contract from Charlie with four elements of contract to be established here: that the offer been made by Albert and has been accepted by Charlie‚ that parties intend to create legal relationship and that the consideration was provided. The issue here is to determine if a reasonable person would consider offer had been made. An offer may be described as the indication of one person to another
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Junyi Zheng Course MGNT3145 Professor.Toson Date 06/23/2013 Facts Mitsubishi has a contract with Crown Door Company which requires Mitsubishi to sell twelve boxcar loads of plywood to Crown and Mitsubishi should import the wood from Taiwan and deliver it to Crown’s plant in Atlanta.Mitsubishi shipped the wood from Taiwan to Savannah.However‚ in Savannah‚as the railroad was negligent in loading the train which caused the cargo to shift during the trip‚finally the wood got damaged. Issue The
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Scott entered into a unilateral contract with Hume. Scott used the large signboard to offer $1000 to the ballplayer who hit a homerun over the sign. This is a promise for an act. Hume completed the performance of the act by hitting the homerun over the sign and therefore the unilateral contract between them was formed. Perry and Scott do not have a contract. The offer that he is intending to collect on was never actually offered to him as Otis did not change the sign in the allotted time frame
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INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS LAW The Law of Tort Core Reading: Lucy Jones‚ Introduction to Business Law (Oxford University Press‚ 2011). Chapter 11 on The Tort of Negligence (Refer to pages 340 – 374). Please note that we ARE NOT going through every single areas in relation to negligence. For instance‚ the area on nervous shock. Aims and Objectives: - To enable students to appreciate the general law of tort‚ especially the concept of negligence; To understand how this area applies
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Business Law What is Business Law? Businesses interact in many and varied ways. To name just a few types of business transactions‚ there are contracts‚ mergers and acquisitions‚ leasing‚ etc. How these transactions are carried out is overseen by Business Law. Additionally‚ how businesses are formed is a large part of Business law. This area of law is very wide-ranging‚ although it deals primarily with defining the rights and responsibilities of businesses‚ rather than enforcing these laws. Because
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Charles Dong LBS Prof Calderon Legal Assignment Two Enforceability of the Pet Clause in the Lease Rafi should have the right to keep Roscoe in his apartment because his landlord cannot enforce the pet clause of the lease based on the given facts. On one hand‚ the bilateral mistake in the contract invalidates the lease‚ and therefore the pet clause is no longer enforceable. Also‚ the doctrine of promissory estoppel can be used to help Rafi not only keep his dog in the apartment but also
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The following situations are similar (all involve the theft of Makoto’s laptop computer)‚ yet they represent three different crimes. Identify the three crimes‚ noting the differences among them. 1 While passing Makoto’s house one night‚ Sarah sees a laptop computer left unattended on Makoto’s porch. Sarah takes the computer‚ carries it home‚ and tells everyone she owns it. 2 While passing Makoto’s house one night‚ Sarah sees Makoto outside with a laptop computer. Holding Makoto at gunpoint
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2) Is Bright entitled to specific performance because of the unique nature of the goods? Yes‚ the seller should cure the nonconforming goods for the buyer. If the buyer accepts the sellers re-tempt to make another delivery because the nature of the circumstance‚ it would need to be done within the time for performance expires. (UCC 2-508; 2A-513) 4) Hoselton did not have a chance to cure the defects. Is Hoselton correct? No‚ the buyer is given the opportunity to inspect the goods. If problems
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Explain the facts‚ issues and reason in the case of Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company. FACTS The Carbolic Smoke Ball Company made a product called the "smoke ball". It claimed to be a cure for influenza and a number of other diseases‚ in the context of the 1889-1890 flu pandemic (estimated to have killed 1 million people). The smoke ball was a rubber ball with a tube attached. It was filled with carbolic acid (or phenol). The tube would be inserted into a user’s nose and squeezed at the bottom
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