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Description
Mind Map by bjkjohnson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by bjkjohnson
about 9 years ago
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Key Terms
- acceptance
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- offeree to go along with the offer
- benefits
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- it is a party that was not previously entitles to receive
- bilateral
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- contains two promises
- capacity
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- legal ability to enter a contract
- consideration
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- exchange of benefits by the parties to an agreements
- counteroffer
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- any change in the terms of the offer
- death
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- offeror dies
- detriments
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- any loss suffered given up
- duress
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- overcoming a persons free will by use of force or threat
- economic duress
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- threats to a persons business or income
- emancipation
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- parent and child relationship
- express
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- contract that may be written or oral
- firm offer
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- a written offer for goods during a period of time and it will stay open
- forbearance
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- not doing something that you can do
- fraudulent misrepresentation
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- party to a contract which makes an untrue fact
- genuine agreement
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- a valid offer that has been made by the offeror
- illusory promises
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- clause or wording that allows party to escape
- implied
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- contract that comes from the action of parties
- insanity
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- offeror is insane
- legality
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- legal contracts
- mentally incapacitated
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- lacking the ability to understand the consequences of the contact acts
- mirror image rule
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- terms of the acceptance must match exactly
- mutual mistake
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- both parties are mistaken about facts
- nominal consideration
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- token amount in a written contract where either the parties cannot or do not wish
- offer
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- legal binding agreement
- offeree
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- offer made to this person
- offeror
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- makes a offer
- option
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- the offeree gives the offeror something of value in return for a promise
- oral
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- created by two or more people
- past performance
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- an act that has already been performed
- price fixing
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- agree on certain price ranges
- rejection
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- refusal by the offeree
- restrictive covenant
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- agreement not to compete in a region for a period of time
- revocation
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- take back of an offer
- statute of frauds
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- contracts be written to be enforceable
- unconsicionable
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- unfair that it would shock the court
- undue influence
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- unfair and pressure within a relationship of trust
- unenforceable contract
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- contact that a court will not uphold because of some rules of law
- unilateral
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- contains a promise by only one person
- unilateral mistake
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- an error on the part of one of the parties
- usury
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- changing too high of an interest rate
- valid contract
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- includes all elements recognized by courts
- void contact
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- no legal effect
- voidable contract
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- one or more party that can get out of a contract by legal reasons
- written
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- contract items are written
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