Contract Law: Misrepresentation, Fraud, and Duress | quimbee.com

A brief excerpt from Quimbee's lecture video on the defenses of misrepresentation, and duress in contract law. Check out Quimbee’s current offerings at https://www.quimbee.com/

This specific lecture video is just one of 30 videos in our lecture on Contracts presented by Professor Shane Dizon. The complete lecture has a duration of 5 hours and 13 minutes and explains the formation of a contract; the creation and interpretation of contract terms; the variety of defenses to a contract; the rights and obligations pertaining to the performance and breach of a contract; and the types and scope of remedies.

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"Contract Law" table of contents:

1. Introduction

Welcome

2. Forming a Contract

Using Contract Vocabulary and Identifying the Elements of Contract
Determining Which Law Applies: UCC or Common Law
I Offered, or Did I?
Accepting an Offer
Exchanging Value: Consideration
Statute of Frauds

3. Creating and Interpreting Contract Terms

Creating Sales Contracts and The Battle of the Forms
Clarifying the Terms: The Rules on Mistake
Relying on the Rules of the Road: Ambiguous Terms and Business Practice
Examining How We Agreed: Parol Evidence, Integration and Merger

4. Defenses to Contract

When Parties Aim to Deceive: Misrepresentation, Duress, and Fraud
When There Is No Way to Perform: Impossibility, Impracticability, and Frustration of Purpose
When We Can't Say Yes: Capacity and Legality
When We Can't Let You Do That: Unconscionability

5. Contract Performance and Breach

Relying on the Other Guy's "No": Anticipatory Repudiation
Answering to Another Power: Third Party Rights
Doing Enough Is As Good As Doing It All? The Rule of Substantial Performance
Selling Goods Is Hard to Do? The Perfect Tender Rule
Performing One Step at a Time: Conditions and Installments

6. Remedies

Putting the Fire Out Yourself: Avoiding Loss and the Duty to Mitigate
Equitable Damages and the Irreplaceable: Specific Performance
Measuring Common-Law Legal Damages (Expectancy, Reliance, and So On)
Piling It On: Liquidated and Punitive Damages
When Buying and Selling Goes Bad: The UCC and Damages
Equitable Damages and Avoiding Injustice: Quasi-Contract and Restitution

7. Conclusion

Recap
Helpful Hints on Outlining Contracts
Helpful Hints on Taking Contracts Exams