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III. VOCABULARY STUDY

Choose an answer for each question.

A. Give the definitions for the following terms and expressions or explain in other words.

II. COMPREHENSION

1. valid contract

2. party (of a contract)

3. legal

4. obligation

5. terms

 

B. Answer the following questions using the information from the text:

 

1. What is the definition of a contract?

2. What basic types of contracts can you point out?

3. What is a contract of record?

4. What is a covenant?

5. What are the requirements for a valid contract?

6. What is an express contract?

 

2. Complete the following sentences according to the information from the text:

1. According to US law, a contract is …

2. The four basic features of a contract are …

3. A subject matter of a contract must not be…

4. Contracts may be either…

5. … must be written and signed.

6. Contracts of record, are …

7. Courts of equity will not enforce… from the acts or conduct of the parties.

3. Complete the consonants and match the following legal terms with their definitions:

1. a..ee.e..   a) the state or quality of being legal or lawful  
2..a.i.i.y   b) a person, especially one who participates in some activity such as entering into a contract  
3..e…   c) the act of agreeing  
4..a..y d) a legally enforceable agreement to perform some act, especially to pay money, for the benefit of another party  
5..o.e.a.   e) any claim, title, etc., that is morally just or legally granted as allowable or due to a person
6. o..i.a.io. f) conditions of an agreement
7..i… g) a binding agreement; contract

1. What do simple contracts depend on?

2. What is the usual form of specialty contract?

3. What is one of the essentials of a contract?

4. What kinds of contracts do not require consideration or surrender of a right?

5. What is the other term for contracts by specialty?

6. What is an express contract?

7. What kinds of contracts must be written and signed?

 

1. It is entered into on terms expressed in spoken or written words.

2. They are contracts involving real estate; debt, or default of another person; etc.

3. A covenant.

4. Mutual assent.

5. On the existence of a consideration.

6. Simple contracts.

7. Contracts by specialty.

 

A to create to have to make to be to depend to require to be inferred B a contract surrender of a right an obligation on the formality from the acts enforceable legal capacity

 

 

One of the … (interest) complexities of English contract law is that it bears the marks of two … (differ) conceptions of how a contract is formed, which derive from two different periods of English legal history. On the one hand, most legal … (history) agree that up until the nineteenth century the predominant conception of a contract in England was as a mechanism of exchange: giving something of value entitled one to something in return. When, on the other hand, the first contract textbooks came to be written in the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries - the era when the teaching of … (nation) law began in English universities - authors drew inspiration from continental authors, especially the French legal academics Pothier and Domat. These authors developed structures and ideas in their work … (design) to describe the French law of contract, based … (large) on … (Rome) law as developed by medieval thinkers.

 

3. Choose the right preposition in brackets according to the contents of the sentences (on, as, between, upon, to, into, from, by, of).

1. Contract law has come to us … common law and it is said that it is an offspring of tort law.

2. Contracts, … the other hand, are a mechanism by which persons voluntarily create obligations themselves.

3. Contract law is the body of law that governs oral and written agreements associated with exchange … goods and services, money, and properties.

4. It includes topics such …the nature of contractual obligations, limitation of actions, freedom of contract, privacy of contract, termination of contract, and covers also agency relationships, commercial paper, and contracts of employment.

5. The important thing about any contract is to enter … a proper agreement that covers all the possible aspects of the arrangement and that you get it in writing.

6. Legally, contracts relating… the sale of land, disposition of any interest in land (including leases) and charges or mortgages over land, must be in writing and signed by the parties to the contract.

7. The exchange of goods and services is governed …contract law.

8. The law of contract is a set of rules governing the relationship, content and validity of an agreement … two or more persons (individuals, companies or other institution) regarding the sale of goods, provision of services or exchange of interests or ownership.

 

4. Explain what a contract includes. Use the following words and word combinations: written, pecuniary, duress, mutual, legal capacity, consideration, parties, fraud, oral, signed.

 




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