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In Lucy v. Zehmer, we venture to rural Virginia in the 1950s, where an allegedly unscrupulous lumberman buys property from a prominent hotel owner during a transaction at a bar the Saturday before Christmas. The lesson here is that, in contract law, it is the way your actions appear to an outsider that matters when determining whether the parties mutually agreed to a contract, not what your internal belief was.

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Cited Sources:

Lucy v. Zehmer, 84 S.E.2d 516 (Virginia 1954).
Barak Richman & Dennis Schmelzer, When Money Grew on Trees: Lucy v. Zehmer and Contracting in A Boom Market, 61 Duke L.J. 1511 (2012).
Contract, Legal Information Institute, https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/contract.
Thomas Morris, Archibald C. Buchanan, ENCYCLOPEDIA VIRGINIA (Dec. 22, 2021), https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entr....
Archives and Historical Documents, Dinwidde County, Virginia, https://www.dinwiddieva.us/747/Archiv....

Clips used are sourced from:

The Crowd (1928)
North by Northwest (1959)