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Two parties reach an agreement that a court will enforce if it is broken. In law that agreement is a:Read the answer and worked solution →A tutor lists what an enforceable contract needs: offer and acceptance, genuine agreement, capacity, legality and:Read the answer and worked solution →Alongside consideration, contract law leans on a second principle that can bind a promise relied on to someone's cost. That principle is promissory:Read the answer and worked solution →A student asks who is generally treated as lacking capacity to contract. The listed groups are the mentally ill, the intoxicated and:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Two parties reach an agreement that a court will enforce if it is broken. In law that agreement is a:

  1. Contract
  2. Complaint
  3. Compliment
  4. Committee
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Correct answer: A. Contract

1. An agreement alone is only a promise between people. 2. What lifts it above a promise is that a court will enforce it. 3. An enforceable agreement between two or more parties is a contract. _Source: OpenStax Business Law I Essentials 2e, Chapters 7 and 8, Contract Law and Sales Contracts._

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A tutor lists what an enforceable contract needs: offer and acceptance, genuine agreement, capacity, legality and:

  1. Correlation
  2. Consideration
  3. Celebration
  4. Confirmation
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Correct answer: B. Consideration

1. Each side must give up something of value for the deal to bind. 2. Without that exchange the promise is one-sided and unenforceable. 3. The missing element is consideration. _Source: OpenStax Business Law I Essentials 2e, Chapters 7 and 8, Contract Law and Sales Contracts._

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Alongside consideration, contract law leans on a second principle that can bind a promise relied on to someone's cost. That principle is promissory:

  1. Estoppel
  2. Estimate
  3. Escrow
  4. Estate
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Correct answer: A. Estoppel

1. Someone acted on a promise and suffered by doing so. 2. The promisor is then stopped from denying the promise. 3. That doctrine is promissory estoppel. _Source: OpenStax Business Law I Essentials 2e, Chapters 7 and 8, Contract Law and Sales Contracts._

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