Class 11: Module II Capstone: Mutual Assent

Mutual Assent · Oct 5

Module quiz, debrief, and Battle-of-the-Forms skills assessment.

Today

Floor. Quiz (0:00–0:25) + item-level debrief (0:25–0:55). The quiz happens. The debrief covers every item with the doctrinal trap explained. ~55 min.

Target. Floor + skills assessment (0:55–1:40) at scheduled scope. The deliverable is collected at the end. ~85 min.

Offer life-cycle: module recap

Offer life-cycle from creation through revocation, rejection or counter-offer, and lapse, with a callout showing acceptance by dispatch under the mailbox rule, running left to right in temporal sequence. — Module II traces the offer from creation through every exit; the quiz tests whether you can identify which exit applies on a given fact pattern.

UCC § 2-207: module recap

UCC 2-207 battle-of-the-forms decision tree tracing the path from offer receipt through the mirror-image test, the conditional-acceptance exception under 2-207 sec. 1, the between-merchants gate, and the three conditions under 2-207 sec. 2 determining when an additional term is excluded. — Battle-of-the-forms analysis moves through a sequence of gates; the skills assessment tests whether you can trace a form exchange through all of them.

Next time

Next class: Consideration

_Consideration_ · Oct 6

Read Hamer v. Sidway and R2d § 71. An uncle promises his nephew $5,000 to refrain from drinking, smoking, swearing, and gambling until age 21. The nephew complies. The uncle dies. Did the nephew give consideration when all he did was deny himself things the law already let him do? Come ready to answer. You may be called.