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Offers Explained: Intent, Definiteness, Advertisements, and Termination
Learn to distinguish a real offer from a joke, price quote, advertisement, invitation to negotiate, or unfinished proposal.
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Practical systems for studying, writing, careers, and law-school life.
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Acceptance and the Mirror-Image Rule
Identify who may accept, how acceptance must be communicated, when silence or conduct works, and when the mailbox rule applies.
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UCC § 2-207: Battle of the Forms Without the Confusion
A step-by-step method for deciding whether a contract formed and which additional or different terms became part of it.
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Consideration: The Bargained-for Exchange Explained
Separate a legally sufficient exchange from gifts, sham promises, pre-existing duties, and unenforceable modifications.
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Option Contracts, Firm Offers, and Irrevocable Offers
Know when an offeror loses the ordinary power to revoke - and when acceptance must be received rather than merely dispatched.