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Contract - Course Outline - 2024

This document provides a course outline for a Contract I course at the University of the West Indies Faculty of Law for the 2019/2020 academic year. The course will cover general principles of contract law, including contract theory, subject matter, and impact. It will also examine contract performance in terms of good faith, honesty, and judicial policy construction. Specific topics will include intention to create legal relations, formalities, offer and acceptance, contractual terms both express and implied, exclusion clauses, consideration, and parties to a contract. Recommended textbooks and casebooks are also listed.

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Contract - Course Outline - 2024

This document provides a course outline for a Contract I course at the University of the West Indies Faculty of Law for the 2019/2020 academic year. The course will cover general principles of contract law, including contract theory, subject matter, and impact. It will also examine contract performance in terms of good faith, honesty, and judicial policy construction. Specific topics will include intention to create legal relations, formalities, offer and acceptance, contractual terms both express and implied, exclusion clauses, consideration, and parties to a contract. Recommended textbooks and casebooks are also listed.

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UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES

FACULTY OF LAW

CONTRACT I – 2019/2020

COURSE OUTLINE

A. INTRODUCTION

1. Overview:

- General Principles; Contract Theory; Subject Matter; Analysis and Impact

2. Contract Performance:

- Good Faith; Honesty; Judicial Policy Construction

B. AGREEMENT

3. Intention to Create Legal Relations and Formalities:

- Contractual Term; Social and Domestic Arrangements; Commercial Transactions;


Outlaw Clauses; Requirement of Formalities; Effect of Failure to Observe
Formalities

4. Offer:

- Nature of Contractual Offers; the Problem of Certainty; Revocation of Offers

5. Acceptance:

- Acceptance by Signature and Non Est Factum; Counter-offers; Battle of the


Forms; Communication of Acceptance; “Snapping up” of Mistakenly Expressed
Offers

C. CONTENTS OF THE AGREEMENT

6. Contractual Terms I – Express Terms

Nature of Terms; Written Contracts and the Parol Evidence Rule; Collateral Warranty
Device; Collateral Contracts

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7. Contractual Terms II – Implied Terms:

Juridical Basis for Implication; Exclusion of Implied Terms; Methods of Implication

8. Contractual Terms III – Exclusion Clauses:

Nature and Function of Exclusion Clauses; Incorporation of Exclusion Clauses;


Attempts to Control the Abuse of Contract Power

D. ENFORCEABILITY

9. Consideration:

Nature and Function of Consideration; Gifts and Bargains; Extortion and Fair
Bargains; Discharge of Debt; On-going Transaction Adjustment and Promissory
Estoppel

10. Parties to a Contract:

Capacity; Mistaken Identity; Privity of Contract and its Evasion; Privity and
Exemption Clauses

MATERIALS

TEXT BOOKS: MP Furmston, Cheshire, Fifoot & Furmston Law of Contract (15th edn);
JC Smith, The Law of Contract (4th edn); J Poole, Contract Law (7th edn);
J Beaston, Anson’s Law of Contract (28th edn); J Cumberbatch,
Commonwealth Caribbean Law of Contract; G Kodilinye & M Kodilinye,
Commonwealth Caribbean Contract Law; R Stone & J Devenney, The
Modern Law of Contract (11th Edn) 2015

CASEBOOKS: JC Smith, Smith & Thomas: A Casebook on Contract (11th edn); HG


Beale, WD Bishop & MP Furmston, Contract Cases & Materials (5th edn)

STATUTES: Sale of Goods Act (any jurisdiction); Statute of Frauds (all jurisdictions)

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