Commentary

Alphabetical | Topical

1. Introduction
   1. Sources of contract law
          Commentary.Sources of contract law
   2. Commentary.Introductory vocabulary and concepts
   3. Commentary.Restitution
2. Formation
   1. Commentary.Capacity
   2. Mutual assent
      1. Commentary.Mutual assent
      2. Basic rules of offer and acceptance
      3. Battle of the forms
      4. Mutual assent in the digital age
            Commentary.Electronic communication
      5. Intention
      6. Implied-in-fact contracts
   3. Consideration and substitutes for consideration
      1. Bargains, illusions and afterthoughts
             Commentary.Consideration and estoppel
      2. Promissory estoppel
      3. Options
             Commentary.Option contracts
   4. Pre-contractual liability and agreements to negotiate
   5. Altering relationships through rescission, modification, waiver, and settlement
                    Commentary.Pre-existing duty
                    Commentary.Settlement of claims
3. Avoidance
   1. Statute of Frauds
   2. Mistake, misrepresentation, duress, and undue influence
      1. Commentary.Mistake, misrepresentation, duress, and undue influence
      2. Mistake
      3. Misrepresentation
      4. Duress, and undue influence
   3. Unconscionability
          Commentary.Unconscionability
   4. Public policy
          Commentary.Public policy
4. Terms and performance
   1. Source of terms
      1. Commentary.Terms
      2. Parol evidence
            Commentary.Parol evidence
      3. Implied-in-fact terms
      4. Terms supplied by default rules
            Commentary.Default terms
   2. Interpretation of terms
      1. General principles
            Commentary.Interpretation
      2. Extrinsic evidence (including parol evidence)
   3. Nature and effect of terms
      1. Promises and conditions
             Commentary.Promises and conditions
             Commentary.Anatomy of a written agreement
      2. Constructive conditions of impossibility, impracticability, and frustration
             Commentary.Discharge by impracticability or frustration of purpose
5. Breach
   1. Discharging remaining duties of the injured party
         Commentary.Failures of performance that discharge duties of counter-performance
   2. Restitution for the breaching party
         Commentary.Restitution (reprise)
   3. Anticipatory repudiation and adequate assurance of performance
         Commentary.Anticipatory repudiation and adequate assurance of performance
   4. Remedy of specific performance or injunction
         Commentary.Remedies
   5. Remedy of compensatory damages
      1. Expectation measure
            Commentary.Compensatory damages
      2. Limitations:  Forseeability, avoidable consequences, reasonable certainty
      3. Alterative measures: reliance or restitution
   6. Tort damages
   7. Agreements about remedies
         Commentary.Liquidated damages, remedy substitutes, and remedy limits
6. Third Parties (under construction)
1. Third party beneficiaries
2. Assignments