Exam 10: Contracts

A "contract" that does not exist at law, such as a contract to commit a crime, is what kind of contract?

If a printed advertisement states the price of a good offered for sale, the seller must sell to any customer who wants the good at that price.

____ of an offer must be unequivocal or definite.

There must be privity between the parties in a case of fraud.

In violation of their contract, a partner quits a partnership and goes into competition with her old partner. The old partner may ask the court for:

"Bozo, if you wash my car I will pay you $10." Bozo says nothing but washes the car later that day. There is what may be called:

____ of an offer must be unequivocal or definite.

A counteroffer ____ the original offer.

Express contracts occur when:

An injunction is a court order to pay compensatory damages for a breach of contract.

The purpose of a contract is to:

The doctrine of anticipatory breach comes from the Statute of Frauds.

The Statute of Frauds holds that if you are going to paint my house two years from today, the contract should be in writing.

An option contract requires the offeror to:

A acceptance is properly communicated:

Contracts created by an intoxicated person may be voidable by that person because he only had partial capacity to contract.

Army enlistment contracts and marriage contracts are examples of:

If a 16-year-old buys a car, uses it for six months, then decides to disaffirm the contract to buy the car on a three-year payment plan, the contract is voidable.

The doctrine that prevents an injustice due to the promisee's reasonable reliance on the promisor's promise is:

A proposal by the offeree to change the terms of the original offer is a: