B Law Unit 2 Ch 13
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| privity of contract | The relationship that exists between the promisor and the promisee of a contract.
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| assignment | The transfer to another of all or part of one’s rights arising under a contract.
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| assignor | A party who transfers (assigns) his rights under a contract to another party (called the assignee).
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| assignee | A party to whom rights under a contract are transferred, or assigned.
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| obligee | One to whom an obligation is owed.
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| obligor | One who owes an obligation to another.
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| alienation | The transfer of land out of one’s possession (thus ---ing the land from oneself).
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| delegation of duties | The transfer to another of all or part of one’s duties arising under a contract.
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| delegator | A party who transfers (delegates) his obligations under a contract to another party (called the delegatee).
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| delegatee | A party to whom contractual obligations are transferred, or delegated.
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| third party beneficiary | One for whose benefit a promise is made in a contract but who is not a party to the contract.
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| intended beneficiary | A third party for whose benefit a contract is formed. Can sue the promisor if the contract is breached.
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| incidental beneficiary | A third party who benefits from a contract even though the contract was not formed for that purpose. Has no rights in the contract and cannot sue to have it enforced.
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| discharge | The termination of an obligation, such as occurs when the parties to a contract have fully performed their contractual obligations.
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| performance | The fulfillment of one’s duties under a contract—the normal way of discharging one’s contractual obligations.
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| condition | A qualification, provision, or clause in a contractual agreement, the occurrence or nonoccurrence of which creates, suspends, or terminates the obligations of the contracting parties.
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| condition precedent | A condition in a contract that must be met before a party’s promise becomes absolute.
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| condition subsequent | A condition in a contract that, if it occurs, operates to terminate a party’s absolute promise to perform.
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| concurrent conditions | Conditions that must occur or be performed at the same time—they are mutually dependent. No obligations arise until these conditions are simultaneously performed.
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| tender | An unconditional offer to perform an obligation by a person who is ready, willing, and able to do so.
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| breach of contract | The failure, without legal excuse, of a promisor to perform the obligations of a contract.
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| anticipatory repudiation | An assertion or action by a party indicating that he will not perform a contractual obligation.
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| novation | The substitution, by agreement, of a new contract for an old one, with the rights under the old one being terminated.
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| impossibility of performance | A doctrine under which a party to a contract is relieved of his duty to perform when performance becomes objectively impossible or totally impracticable.
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| commercial impracticability | A doctrine that may excuse the duty to perform a contract when performance becomes much more difficult or costly due to forces that neither party could control or contemplate at the time the contract was formed.
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| frustration of purpose | A court-created doctrine under which a party to a contract will be relieved of his duty to perform when the objective purpose for performance no longer exists (due to reasons beyond that party’s control).
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