COURSE DESCRIPTION 2012 2013

Prof. Richard M. Perlmutter, Prof. Jeffrey D. Wittenberg, Prof. Carter G. Bishop, Prof. Steven Ferrey, Prof. Joseph Franco, Prof. Elizabeth Trujillo, Prof. Jeffrey Lipshaw,

6 credits day; 6 credits evening.

Contracts defined and classified; capacity of parties; nature and legal effect of offer and acceptance; consideration; fraud, mistake and undue influence; statute of frauds; types of illegality; interpretation of language; operation of law; effect of express and implied conditions; performance of conditions; waiver of conditions; rescission of contracts; performance; excuses for nonperformance, including novation, alteration and impossibility of performance, breach of contract and remedies; damages, nominal and compensatory; quasi-contracts, introduction to the Uniform Commercial Code; professional responsibility of the lawyer in contract law.

Required Course

Final Exam Required

Conveyancing and Mortgage Law