Basic Contract Law for Paralegals - Softcover

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Basic Contract Law for Paralegals is a clear, comprehensive, and straightforward introduction to all of the basics of contract law, specifically designed for paralegal students. Lively examples and well-crafted pedagogy cover all key topics in a contracts course—from offer, acceptance, and consideration, to discharge of obligations, and remedies. An appendix of twelve sample contracts provides a useful ongoing reference tool for paralegals working with contracts.

Features:

• Comprehensive coverage of all the key topics.
• A culminating chapter walks students through the process of drafting a simple contract.
• Clearly written text and lively examples help students understand the law.
• Well-crafted pedagogy includes chapter overviews, highlighted examples, key terms, review questions, sample clauses for analysis, edited cases, chapter summaries, and end-of-chapter exercises
• Manageable length makes this book ideal for shorter courses.

New cases provide up-to-date coverage of: 

• Express and implied contracts and promissory estoppel 
• Bilateral and unilateral contracts
• The mirror image rule and acceptance
• Consideration
• Implied-in-fact conditions and conditions precedent
• Third party beneficiaries
• Anticipatory repudiation and how to measure damages.

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