Review seminar questions

1. Deeds and other formalities

2. General lack of formal requirement

3. The external signs of agreement

4. Offer

5. Distinction of an Offer from “Invitation to Treat”

6. Self-service displays

7. Shop window displays

8. Advertisements

9. Unilateral and bilateral contracts

10. Acceptance. Methods of acceptance

11. Acceptance by conduct

12. Acceptance by silence

13. Acceptance in bilateral contracts

14. Inertia selling

15. Acceptance by post

16. Acceptance in Internet transactions

17. Acceptance in unilateral contracts. Unilateral contracts and ‘agreement’

18. Position in ‘reward’ contracts

19. Acceptance in ignorance of an offer

20. Domestic agreements

21. Commercial agreements

22. Collective agreements

23. Is a requirement of intention necessary?

24. Reasons for limitations on capacity

25. Minors’ contracts

26. Contracts for necessaries

27. Beneficial contracts of service

28. Contracts related to work

29. Effects of entering into a contract with a minor

30. Void contracts

31. Voidable contracts

32. Enforceable contracts

33. Minors’ liability in tort

34. Mental disability

35. Intoxication

36. Distinction between representations and terms

37. Remedies for pre-contractual statements

38. Pre-contractual statements under the Principles of European Contract Law

39. The actions for Misrepresentation

40. The actions for breach of a Collateral contract

41. The actions for the tort of Negligent misstatement

42. Conclusion on pre-contractual statements

43. Express terms

44. Incorporation

45. Construction

46. Methods of interpretation of express terms

47. Conditions, warranties and innominate terms

48. Implied terms

49. Terms implied by the courts

50. Terms implied by custom

51. Terms implied in fact

52. Terms implied by law

53. Terms from the House of Lords’ decision in “Liverpool City Council v Irwin”.

54. Terms implied by statute

55. Implied terms under the Sale of Goods Act

56. Damages: purpose and measure

57. Expectation interest

58. Reliance interest

59. Restitution

60. Consequential losses. Supervening events

61. Non-pecuniary losses

62. Limitations on recovery. The rule of remoteness

63. Degree of risk

64. Mitigation

65. Contributory negligence

66. Liquidated damages and penalty clauses

67. Adequacy of damages

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