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LAW-101 Contracts
Prof. Carter G. Bishop, Prof. Steven Ferrey, Prof. Jeffrey Lipshaw, Prof. Elizabeth Trujillo, Prof.
Jeffrey D. Wittenberg,
5 credits day; 5 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. Contracts
is offered as 2 credits in the fall semester and 3 credits in the spring.
Required Course
Final Exam Required
<<Course Updated: March 15, 2016>>