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Contract Law Case Study. E-Business Contract Law Case Study Analysis I. My
first gut was to say that this was a contract. The website ...
... Uncertainty of Law There is no insurance coverage which ... as insurance is a legally
binding contract which needs ... This case study could only cover a small area of ...
... of these claims were not established in the contract and that ... claim that will get
nothing in a court of law. ... for no reason and thus will probably win his case. ...
... In this case Mrs. Coleman, an African-American woman, was hired ... the Civil Rights
Act as well as state law causes of action of breach of contract and abuse ...
... in large commercial aircraft ” The EC law is concerned ... Boeing required Boeing to
cancel its contract with 3 ... However, in the case of Boeing-Mc Donnell Douglas ...
Submitted by mikeymyles on May 17, 2007
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E-Business Contract Law Case Study Analysis
I. My first gut was to say that this was a contract. The website made an offer to send free software to anyone who sent his/her email address. Upon further review, I have decided that this example does not meet the essential elements of a contract as described below.
Our lecture stated "to be an offer, a communication needs to be sufficiently definite so it manifests the willingness to enter into a bargain (a binding contract), not just to conduct further negotiations toward ultimately entering into a bargain." With the opened question of "cool software," that leaves it open for further negotiations. What type of software is "cool software"? If the offer was more specific I think we could go on to the next rule of acceptance by entering and sending our email address, but this offer had no terms, there was no payment for the software and was left up to the offeree to determine what type of software was considered cool to him or her.
This offer is also lacking certainty and definiteness of terms, which would not make it complete. According to our text, "At a minimum the offer has to contain the identities of the parties to the contract, the subject matter of the contract, the price and the quantity. In most contracts, the offer actually has to contain more terms than price, quantity, the parties, and the subject matter of the contract. If a material term in the contract is missing, then the offer is incomplete."
II. I feel that the second case shows that a contract has been formed regardless of the fact that John's twelve year old son completed the transaction by entering John's name and clicking the submit button. John had essentially added all the pertinent information. The offer was made by listing the product and price of network equipment on the website. A Click-wrap agreement was made and accepted by completing the form signature and clicking on the...
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