HW Questions: What Contract Law is applicable for these 3 scenarios????

[ShyCat]

The volunteers on this site generally prefer that you do your own homework.

 

[Mass_Shyster]

What Contract Law is applicable for these 3 scenarios????



1. Seller offers to sell Buyer a boat for $500.

I think Admiralty law may apply, though if the boat is not to be used on navigable waters, UCC may apply.

2. Lisa mails Mickey an offer. Mickey drafts an acceptance but then decides not to accept. Later Mickey accidentally mails the letter of acceptance together with other letters.

Federal law may apply since she used the mail system.

3. Seller wrote a general email to ten buyers asking “do you want to buy 240 cattle each at 1000 pounds (per cattle) at $8.25 per pound?
Cattle Must be sold by Friday. Phone me at Wichita Kansas if you accept.”
One buyer faxes an immediate acceptance saying: "I accept all 250 cattle!"

You would need to determine if there is an applicable California statute to apply, otherwise apply common law.

 

[FlyingRon]

Here's a dime. Go call your mother and tell her there are serious doubts about you becoming a lawyer.

 

[Mass_Shyster]

Here's a dime. Go call your mother and tell her there are serious doubts about you becoming a lawyer.

1. Can't make a phone call with a dime anymore.
2. Mom passed away
3. Too late. I'm already a lawyer

 

[cbg]

Sorry, linkraiders, but we're not doing your homework for you.

 

[quincy]

Instead of providing this student with answers to the homework questions asked (the teacher/professor is not grading our knowledge), the student would do well to learn how to do his/her own research.

There is a "Pocket Guide to Legal Research" written by William H.Putnam and published by Thomson that can be helpful.

 

[FlyingRon]

1. Can't make a phone call with a dime anymore.
2. Mom passed away
3. Too late. I'm already a lawyer

I was speaking to linkraiders24.

Yes, the quote is way anachronistic, but it's such a great line (better in the book, than in the movie).

 

[quincy]

... it's such a great line (better in the book, than in the movie).

I have missed your book/movie reference before, too. I guess I fail at movie quotes (but I used to know well lines from The Simpson's ).

 

[FlyingRon]

I have missed your book/movie reference before, too. I guess I fail at movie quotes (but I used to know well lines from The Simpson's ).

That version above was spoken by John Houseman in the movie The Paper Chase. They inserted it in the middle of the movie.

It's from John Jay Osborne's book "The Paper Chase" written based on his experiences at Harvard Law. I think another competing book called One-L is better.

Here's the passage which appears in italics ahead of chapter one:

In the few days between arrival at Harvard Law School and the first classes, there are rumors. And stories. About being singled out, made to show your stuff. Mostly, they're about people who made some terrible mistake. Couldn't answer a question right. One concerns a boy who did a particularly bad job. His professor called him down to the front of the class, up to the podium, gave the student a dime and said, loudly: "Go call your mother, and tell her you'll never be a lawyer."

Sometimes the story ends here, but the way I heard it, the crushed student bowed his head and limped slowly back through the one hundred and fifty students in the class. When he got to the door, his anger exploded. He screamed-- "You're a son of a bitch, Kingsfield."

"That's the first intelligent thing you've said," Kingsfield replied. "Come back. Perhaps I've been too hasty."

 

[quincy]

That version above was spoken by John Houseman in the movie The Paper Chase. They inserted it in the middle of the movie.

It's from John Jay Osborne's book "The Paper Chase" written based on his experiences at Harvard Law. I think another competing book called One-L is better.

Here's the passage which appears in italics ahead of chapter one:

In the few days between arrival at Harvard Law School and the first classes, there are rumors. And stories. About being singled out, made to show your stuff. Mostly, they're about people who made some terrible mistake. Couldn't answer a question right. One concerns a boy who did a particularly bad job. His professor called him down to the front of the class, up to the podium, gave the student a dime and said, loudly: "Go call your mother, and tell her you'll never be a lawyer."

Sometimes the story ends here, but the way I heard it, the crushed student bowed his head and limped slowly back through the one hundred and fifty students in the class. When he got to the door, his anger exploded. He screamed-- "You're a son of a bitch, Kingsfield."

"That's the first intelligent thing you've said," Kingsfield replied. "Come back. Perhaps I've been too hasty."

I know it is from "The Paper Chase" only because I made a comment similar to Steve's and you reminded me of the book and movie.

It has been a long time since I saw it. Good film and many law professors are said by their students to be like the Kingsfield character. Many law professors, including those at Harvard, have moved away from teaching by Socratic Method now, though.

I liked "One L" better, too.

 

[cbg]

Don't get me started on Harvard Law School professors...