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11 questions
Explain novation and its effect on the original parties.
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13 questions
Distinguish fundamental (repudiatory) breach from minor breach, and explain the innocent party's right to terminate or affirm.
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13 questions
Explain anticipatory breach (Hochster v De la Tour; White & Carter v McGregor) and the options open to the innocent party.
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14 questions
Explain the concept of frustration and its development from the rule of absolute contracts (Paradine v Jane) to Taylor v Caldwell.
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13 questions
Identify frustrating events (destruction of the subject matter, death or incapacity, supervening illegality, non-occurrence of the event on which the contract was based) and the limits of the doctrine.
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15 questions
Explain the common-law consequences of frustration and how the Contracts Act, 1960 (Act 25) modifies them.
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17 questions
Explain the purpose and measure of damages (expectation and reliance), remoteness (Hadley v Baxendale; Victoria Laundry v Newman), the duty to mitigate, and liquidated damages compared with penalties.
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8 questions
Calculate a simple award of damages from given facts, applying the expectation measure and the duty to mitigate.
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18 questions
Explain the equitable remedies of specific performance, injunction, rescission and rectification, and when courts grant them.
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13 questions
Explain quantum meruit and restitution (restoring the parties to their original positions).