Four Elements Of A Contract Case Study

730 Words2 Pages

The case presented is that of Sam Stevens who resides in an apartment. He has been working on an alarm system that makes barking sounds to scare off intruders, and has made a verbal agreement with a chain store to ship them 1,000 units. He had verbally told his landlord, Quinn, about his new invention and Quinn wished him luck. However, he recently received an eviction notice for the violation of his lease due to the fact that his new invention was too loud and interrupting the covenant of quiet of enjoyment of the neighbors and for conducting business from his apartment unit. Various elements must be present to prove that a valid contract exists between Sam and the chain store. The four elements to a contract are agreement, consideration, …show more content…

(Insert Citation p 305). Consideration refers to the attained good or service agreed upon by each party under a contract. Contractual Capacity is the legal ability to enter into a binding agreement. Some factors that affect contractual capacity are: age, mental health and agreements under alcohol intoxication. Last but not least is the legal object, which means that for a contract to be enforceable it must be of legal intent and comply with public policy. If all of these factors are present in a contract, we can conclude that a binding contractual agreement exists and it is enforceable by law. If the elements of a contract did exist between these parties, there could still be some possible reasons why a contract might not be valid based on facts not present in the scenario. For example, if Sam was a minor at the time he made the agreement with the chain store, the contract would not be valid because of contractual capacity. Per the law a contract by minors is voidable by the minor itself. Other reasons that would deem a contract invalid are lack of genuine assent, which means that the accepting party entered the agreement under fraudulent circumstances, duress, undue influence and/or misrepresentation. Moreover the validity of the contract could be hindered due to lack of proper form. This typically refers to

More about Four Elements Of A Contract Case Study

Open Document