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# Contracts

> Contract Law Class Notes & Comprehensive Outline

# Contracts

Welcome to your comprehensive Contracts class notes and study materials. This section contains organized class notes from every session, a complete outline, and all transcripts.

<Info>
  This semester focuses exclusively on **contract formation** and **formation defenses**. Performance, breach, warranties, conditions, and remedies are covered next semester.
</Info>

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## Comprehensive Outline

<Card title="Fryk Outline - Contract Formation Through Modification" icon="book" href="/classes/contracts/outlines/fryk-outline">
  Complete outline covering: UCC vs. Common Law, Contract Formation, Offer, Acceptance, Consideration, Defenses, and Modification. Study-ready reference for exam preparation.
</Card>

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## Class Notes by Topic

### I. Introduction & Foundational Concepts

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Session 01 - Course Introduction" href="/classes/contracts/notes/session-01">
    Course administration, sources of contract law, introduction to formation
  </Card>

  <Card title="Session 02 - Formation Basics" href="/classes/contracts/notes/session-02">
    Foundational principles, contract types and classifications
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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### II. Intent to Contract & Offers

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Session 03 - Intent & Preliminary Agreements" href="/classes/contracts/notes/session-03">
    Objective theory, preliminary agreements, letters of intent, advertisements
  </Card>

  <Card title="Session 04 - Offers & Formation" href="/classes/contracts/notes/session-04">
    Valid offers, objective theory, advertisements as offers
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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### III. Acceptance & UCC Article 2

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Session 05 - UCC vs. Common Law" href="/classes/contracts/notes/session-05">
    UCC Article 2 vs. common law, acceptance rules, battle of the forms intro
  </Card>

  <Card title="Session 06 - Acceptance" href="/classes/contracts/notes/session-06">
    Mirror image rule, UCC 2-207, bilateral vs. unilateral contracts
  </Card>

  <Card title="Session 07 - Silence & Termination" href="/classes/contracts/notes/session-07">
    Methods of acceptance, silence as acceptance, termination of offers
  </Card>

  <Card title="Session 08 - Battle of the Forms" href="/classes/contracts/notes/session-08">
    UCC 2-207 detailed analysis, digital contracts, clickwrap agreements
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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### IV. Consideration & Substitutes

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Session 09 - Consideration" href="/classes/contracts/notes/session-09">
    Definition, bargained-for exchange, legal detriment, case law
  </Card>

  <Card title="Session 10 - Pre-Existing Duty Rule" href="/classes/contracts/notes/session-10">
    Pre-existing duty rule, modification, past consideration, moral obligation
  </Card>

  <Card title="Session 11 - Promissory Estoppel" href="/classes/contracts/notes/session-11">
    Moral obligation, promissory estoppel, Restatement Second §90
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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### V. Formation Defenses

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Session 12 - Capacity of the Parties" icon="12" href="/classes/contracts/notes/session-12">
    Minors, mental capacity, cognitive vs. product test, restitution
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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## Study Resources

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Full Class Transcripts" icon="file-lines" href="/classes/contracts/transcripts/index">
    Complete verbatim transcripts from all class sessions for detailed review and reference
  </Card>

  <Card title="Quick Topic Reference" icon="magnifying-glass">
    Jump to specific topics across sessions
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Quick Topic Reference - Find Sessions by Topic">
    | **Topic**                       | **Session(s)** |
    | ------------------------------- | -------------- |
    | UCC vs. Common Law              | 5, 8           |
    | Offers                          | 3, 4, 7        |
    | Acceptance                      | 5, 6, 7, 8     |
    | Battle of the Forms (UCC 2-207) | 6, 8           |
    | Consideration                   | 6, 9, 10, 11   |
    | Pre-Existing Duty Rule          | 10             |
    | Promissory Estoppel             | 10, 11         |
    | Capacity Defenses               | 12             |
    | Minors & Restitution            | 12             |
    | Mental Capacity                 | 12             |
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

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## Exam Preparation Guide

<Tip>
  Use this checklist to analyze any contracts fact pattern on your exam!
</Tip>

<Steps>
  <Step title="Is there an offer?">
    Review Sessions 3, 4, 7 for offer requirements and analysis
  </Step>

  <Step title="Is there acceptance?">
    Review Sessions 5, 6, 7, 8 for acceptance rules and UCC 2-207
  </Step>

  <Step title="Is there consideration?">
    Review Sessions 9, 10, 11 for consideration and substitutes
  </Step>

  <Step title="Are there any defenses to formation?">
    Review Session 12 for capacity defenses (minors, mental incapacity)
  </Step>
</Steps>

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Key Doctrines to Master" icon="graduation-cap">
    * **Objective theory of contracts** - What would a reasonable person understand?
    * **Mirror image rule vs. UCC 2-207** - Common law vs. UCC acceptance rules
    * **Bargained-for exchange** - Core requirement of consideration
    * **Pre-existing duty rule** - When existing obligations don't count as consideration
    * **Promissory estoppel (Restatement Second §90)** - Consideration substitute
    * **Capacity defenses** - Minors and mental incapacity
    * **Restitution as remedy** - Restoring parties to pre-contract position
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>