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Contracts
Terms
- ABA Standards
- Absence of Terms
- Acceptance
- Accord
- Actual Damages
- Adequacy of Consideration
- Adequate Assurances
- Adhesion Contract
- Administrative State
- Advertisements
- Algorithm
- Algorithmic Bias
- Ambiguity
- Anticipatory Repudiation
- Anti-Modification Clause
- Antitrust
- Arguendo
- Arms-Length Transaction
- Artificial Intelligence
- Assignment
- Assignment of Rights
- Automation
- Avoidable Consequences
- Bar Exam
- Bargained-For Exchange
- Benefit of the Bargain
- Best Efforts
- Bilateral Contracts
- Boilerplate
- Breach
- Breach of Warranty
- Calculation of Damages (Contract)
- Capacity
- Cash
- Causation
- Certainty
- Certain Damages
- Changed Circumstances
- Charitable Giving
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Movement
- Coercion
- Collateral
- Commodity
- Common Law
- Compensatory Damages
- Concealment
- Conditional Promises
- Construction
- Construction Law
- Constructive Conditions
- Conditions
- Consequential Damages
- Consideration
- Contact Economy
- Contract
- Contract Modification
- Contract of Adhesion
- Controlling the Manner of Acceptance
- Coordination Rights
- Copyleft
- Covenant
- Counteroffers
- Credit Score
- Creditor Beneficiary
- Critical Legal Studies
- Critical Race Theory
- Cross-Collateralization Clause
- Cure
- Curing Terms
- Damages
- Death
- Debt
- Defenses to Enforceability
- Definiteness
- Delegation
- Delegation of Duties
- Demurrer
- Destroying the Offer
- Direct Damages
- Discharge
- Distress
- Divisibility
- Donee Beneficiary
- Duress
- Earnest Money
- Economic Duress
- Election of Remedies
- Electronic Acceptance
- Electronic Record
- Electronic Signature
- Encumbrance
- Enforceable Non-Exchange Obligations
- Equal Bargaining Power
- Equity
- Estoppel
- Excuse of Conditions
- Expectation Damages
- Expectation Interest
- Express Conditions
- Express Warranties
- Expression of Intent
- Failure to Cooperate
- Federalist Society
- Feminist Legal Theory
- Finance
- Firm Offer
- Forbearance
- Forbearance to Sue
- Force Majeure
- Foreseeability
- Foreseeable Damages
- Formation
- Formation-by-Email
- Franchise
- Fraud
- Fraudulent Misrepresentation
- Free Market
- Free Software
- Frustration of Purpose
- Guardian Ad Litem
- Gift
- Goods
- Good Faith and Fair Dealing
- Hegemony
- Help-Wanted Ad
- Hindrance
- Human Rights
- Identification
- Illegality
- Illusory Promises
- Implied-in-Fact Contracts
- Implied-in-Law Contracts
- Implied Terms
- Implied Warranties
- Impossibility
- Impracticability
- Inability to Perform
- Incapacity
- Incidental Beneficiary
- Incidental Damages
- Indefiniteness
- Indigenous Law
- Information Capitalism
- Indemnity Clause
- Injunction
- Integrated Agreement
- Intended Beneficiary
- Intent to Be Bound
- Interference
- Internal Affairs Doctrine
- International Transactions
- Interpreting Agreements
- Interpreting Terms
- Intersectionality
- Irrevocability
- Judicial Economy
- Jurisprudence
- Knowledge of Mistake
- Langdell Method
- Lapse
- Lapse of Time
- Law & Political Economy
- Law & Political Economy Movement
- Letters of Intent
- Legal Fiction
- Legal Formalism
- Legal History
- Legal Realism
- Legal Sovereignty
- Legal Tender
- Liberty
- Limitation of Remedies
- Liquidated Damages
- Liquidated Damages Clause
- Making the Offer
- Manner of Acceptance
- Material Breach
- Maxims of Interpretation
- Merger Clause
- Minor Breach
- Misrepresentation
- Missing Terms
- Mistake
- Misunderstanding
- Mitigation of Damages
- Mixed Contract
- Model Rules of Professional Conduct
- Moral Obligation
- Moral Consideration
- Mortgage
- Movement Lawyering
- Mutual Assent
- Mutual Mistake
- New Brandeis Movement
- New Deal
- New Terms
- No-Fault Insurance
- Nominal Consideration
- Non-Compete Agreement
- Nondisclosure
- Non-Disclosure Agreement
- Nonfraudulent Mispresentation
- Notice
- Novation
- Nudum Pactum
- Glossary/Objective Theory
- Offer
- Offer of Reward
- Offer to the Public
- Omitted Terms
- Open Source
- Option Contract
- Option to Cure
- Partial Breach
- Partial Performance
- Past Consideration
- Penalties
- Perfect Tender
- Performance
- Preliminary Injunction
- Preserving the Offer
- Prevention
- Principal Sum
- Professional Network
- Promoter Liability
- Promise
- Promissory Estoppel
- Proving Terms
- Public Benefit Corporations
- Public Policy
- Puffery
- Quasi-Contract
- Queer Legal Theory
- Quotations
- Real Estate Contracts
- Reconveyance Deed
- Reformation
- Reliance
- Reliance Damages
- Reliance Interest
- Regulatory Compliance
- Rejection
- Release
- Remedial Rights of Breaching Parties
- Remedies
- Representation
- Repudiation
- Rescission
- Restitution
- Restitution Damages
- Restitution Interests
- Revocation
- Right
- Risk of Loss
- Risk of Mistake
- Rolling Contracts
- Sale-of-Goods Contracts
- Satisfaction
- Silence
- Specific Performance
- Speculative Damages
- Standardized Form
- Statute of Frauds
- Stipulation
- Substantial Performance
- Substituted Contract
- Suretyship Contract
- Termination of Offer
- Termination Fee
- Termination for Cause
- Termination for Convenience
- Terms
- Terms Provided by Courts and Legislators
- The Battle of the Forms
- The Benefit-Detriment Requirement
- The Mailbox Rule
- The Mirror Image Rule
- The Parol Evidence Rule
- The Predominant Purpose Test
- The Preexisting Duty Rule
- Third-Party Beneficiaries
- Third-Party Rights
- Time is of the Essence
- Timing of Acceptance
- Uncertain Terms
- Unconscionability
- Undue Influence
- Unforeseeable Damages
- Uniform Commercial Code
- Unilateral Contracts
- Unilateral Mistake
- Ultra Vires Acts
- Unjust Enrichment
- Unwillingness to Perform
- Vague Terms
- Validating Agreements
- Voidable Promises
- Voiding a Contract
- Wage Theft
- Waiver
- Warranties
- Warranty Disclaimers
- Warranty of Merchantability
- Warranty of Title
- Willful Breach
- Workers Compensation
- Workplace Harassment
- Actual Damages
Cases
- Adams v. Lindsell (1818)
- Alaska Packers’ Association v. Domenico (1902)
- Angel v. Murray (1974)
- Barker v. Price (2015)
- Bartush-Schnitzius Foods v. Cimco (2017)
- Beall v. Beall (1981)
- Berkson v. Gogo (2015)
- Blodgett v. Blodgett (1990)
- Blondell v. Ahmed (2016)
- Borelli v. Brusseau (1993)
- Brinton v. Haight (1994)
- Britton v Turner (1834)
- Budget Marketing v. Centronics (1991)
- Broz v. Cellular Information Systems (1996)
- Cablevision v. Tannhauser Condo. Ass'n (1982)
- Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball (1892)
- Community Design v. Antonell (1984)
- Congregation Kadmiah Toras-Moshe v. DeLeo (1989)
- Cox v. SNAP (2017)
- Daughtrey v. Ashe (1992)
- Davis v. Jacoby (1934)
- DePrince v. Starboard Cruise Services (2015)
- Dickinson v. Dodds (1876)
- Dobson Bay Club II DD v. La Sonrisa De Siena (2017)
- Dorton v. Collins & Aikman (1972)
- Dynalectric v. Clark & Sullivan Constructors (2011)
- ESPN v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball (1999)
- Estate of Nelson v. Rice (2000)
- Ever-Tite Roofing v. Green (1955)
- Ex Parte Stamey (2000)
- Flooring Systems v. Radisson Group (1988)
- Frigaliment Importing Co. v. B. N. S. Int'l Sales Corp. (1960)
- Fuji Photo Film USA v. Zalmen Reiss Associates (2011)
- Garwood Packing v. Allen & Co. (2004)
- Gassner v. Raynor (2011)
- Gebbia v. Schulder (2011)
- Grenall v. United of Omaha Life Insurance (2008)
- Gresser v. Hotzler (2000)
- Groves v. John Wunder Co. (1939)
- Halpert v. Rosenthal (1970)
- Hamer v. Sidway (1891)
- Harrington v. Taylor (1945)
- Hawkins v. McGee (1929)
- Henricks v. Behee (1990)
- Howard v. Federal Crop Insurance Corp. (1976)
- I.Lan Systems v. Netscout Service Level Corp. (2002)
- Jacob & Youngs, Inc. v. Kent (1921)
- Kamco Supply v. On the Right Track (2017)
- Kearney v. Equilon Enterprises (2014)
- Keena v. Groupon (2016)
- Klocek v. Gateway (2000)
- Kolodziej v. Mason (2014)
- Krell v. Henry (1903)
- Kvassay v. Murray (1991)
- La Salle National Bank v. Vega (1988)
- Laemmar v. J. Walter Thompson Co. (1970)
- Laredo National Bank v. Gordon (1932)
- Lawrence v. Fox (1859)
- Lewin v. Levine (2017)
- Locke v. Warner Brothers (1997)
- Lonergan v. Scolnick (1954)
- Lucy v. Zehmer (1954)
- Luttinger v. Rosen (1972)
- Marchiondo v. Scheck (1967)
- McCormick v. Dresdale (2010)
- Merry Gentleman v. George & Leona Productions (2015)
- Meyer v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. (1990)
- Midwest Grain Products v. Productization (2000)
- Mills v. Wyman (1825)
- Mind & Motion Utah Investments v. Celtic Bank (2016)
- Minnesota Linseed Oil v. Collier White Lead Co. (1876)
- Norcon Power v. Niagara Mohawk Power (1998)
- Odorizzi v. Bloomfield School District (1966)
- Oliver v. Ball (2016)
- Olson v. Etheridge (1997)
- Paine v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance (1892)
- Panike & Sons Farms v. Smith (2009)
- Parker v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film (1970)
- Patterson v. Patterson (1875)
- Pavone v. Kirke (2011)
- Peevyhouse v. Garland Coal Mining Co. (1963)
- Penncro Assoc. v. Sprint Spectrum (2007)
- Poeppel v. Lester (2013)
- Posey v. Ford (2005)
- R.R. v. M.H. (1998)
- R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. v. Vanguard Transport Systems (2009)
- Raffles v. Wichelhaus (1864)
- Reed v. University of North Dakota (1999)
- Reed Foundation v. Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, LLC (2013)
- Route 6 Outparcels v. Ruby Tuesday (2011)
- Sally Beauty v. Nexxus Products (1986)
- Schnell v. Nell (1861)
- Schott v. Westinghouse Elec. Corp. (1969)
- Singer v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. (1978)
- Sinnar v. Leroy (1954)
- Stokes v. DISH Network (2016)
- Swinton v. Whitinsville Savings Bank (1942)
- Sunnyland Farms v. Central New Mexico Elec. Coop. (2013)
- Taylor v. Caldwell (1863)
- Trident Center v. Connecticut General Life Ins. Co. (1988)
- United States v. Algernon Blair (1973)
- Varney v. Ditmars (1916)
- Watts v. Watts (1987)
- Webb v. McGowin (1936)
- Weiss v. Smulders (2014)
- Weintraub v. Krobatsch (1965)
- Weitz v. Hands (2016)
- Williams v. Walker Thomas Furniture Co. (1965)
- Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon (1917)
Restatement of Contracts (2nd) (Full)
- § 1: Contract Defined
- § 2: Promise; Promisor, Promisee, Beneficiary
- § 3: Agreement Defined; Bargain Defined
- § 17: Requirement of a Bargain
- § 18: Manifestation of Mutual Intent
- § 19: Conduct as Manifestation of Intent
- § 20: Misunderstanding
- § 21: Intent to Be Legally Bound
- § 22: Mode of Assent: Offer & Acceptance
- § 24: Offer Defined
- § 25: Option Contracts
- § 26: Preliminary Negotiations
- § 27: Existence of Contract Where Written Memorial Is Contemplated
- § 30: Form of Acceptance Invited
- § 32: Invitation of Promise or Performance
- § 33: Certainty
- § 36: Modes of Termination
- § 37: Termination of Power of Acceptance Under Option Contract
- § 38: Rejection
- § 41: Lapse of Time
- § 42: Revocation by Communication
- § 43: Indirect … Revocation
- § 45: Option Contract Created by Part Performance or Tender
- § 48: Death or Incapacity of Offeror
- § 50: Acceptance of Offer Defined; Acceptance by Performance; Acceptance by Promise
- § 53: Acceptance by Performance; Manifestation of Intention Not to Accept
- § 54: Acceptance By Performance; Necessity of Notification to Offeror
- § 61: Acceptance Which Requests Change of Terms
- § 63: Time When Acceptance Takes Effect
- § 69: Acceptance by Silence
- § 71: Requirement of Exchange; Types of Exchange
- § 72: Exchange of Promise for Performance
- § 73: Modification of Executory Contract
- § 74: Settlement of Claims
- § 79: Adequacy of Consideration; Mutuality of Obligation
- § 81: Consideration as Motive or Inducing Cause
- § 84: Promise To Perform A Duty In Spite Of Non–Occurrence Of A Condition
- § 86: Promise for Benefit Received
- § 87: Option Contract
- § 89: Modification of Executory Contract
- § 90: Promise Reasonably Inducing Action or Forbearance
- § 110: Statute of Frauds
- § 131: General Requisites of a Memorandum
- § 159: Misrepresentation Defined
- § 160: When Action Is Equivalent to an Assertion (Concealment)
- § 161: When Non-Disclosure Is Equivalent to an Assertion
- § 162: When a Misrepresentation Is Fraudulent or Material
- § 163: When a Misrepresentation Prevents Formation of a Contract
- § 164: When a Misrepresentation Makes a Contract Voidable
- § 167: When a Misrepresentation Is an Inducing Cause
- § 168: Reliance on Assertions of Opinion
- § 174: When Duress by Physical Compulsion Prevents Formation of a Contract
- § 175: When Duress by Threat Makes a Contract Voidable
- § 176: When a Threat Is Improper
- § 177: When Undue Influence Makes a Contract Voidable
- § 178: When a Term is Unenforceable on Grounds of Public Policy
- § 181: Effect of Failure to Comply With Licensing or Similar Requirement
- § 201: Whose Meaning Prevails
- § 205: Duty of Good Faith and Fair Dealing
- § 208: Unconscionable Contract or Term
- § 209: Integrated Agreements
- § 210: Completely And Partially Integrated Agreements
- § 211: Standardized Agreements
- § 213: Effect of Integrated Agreement on Prior Agreements (Parol Evidence Rule)
- § 214: Evidence of Prior or Contemporaneous Agreements and Negotiations
- § 221: Usage Supplementing an Agreement
- § 222: Usage of Trade
- § 223: Course of Dealing
- § 224: Condition Defined
- § 225: Effects of the Non-Occurrence of a Condition
- § 227: Standards of Preference with Regard to Conditions
- § 229: Excuse of a Condition to Avoid Forfeiture
- § 234: Order of Performances
- § 235: Effect of Performance as Discharge and of Non-Performance As Breach
- § 236: Claim for Damages for Total and for Partial Breach
- § 237: Effect on Other Party's Duties of a Failure to Render Performance
- § 238: Effect on Other Party’s Duties of a Failure to Offer Performance
- § 240: Part Performances as Agreed Equivalents
- § 241: Circumstances Significant in Determining Whether a Failure Is Material
- § 242: Circumstances Significant in Determining When Remaining Duties Are Discharged
- § 243: Effect of a Breach by Non-Performance As Giving Rise to a Claim for Damages for Total Breach
- § 245: Effect of a Breach by Non-Performance As Excusing the Non-Occurrence Of a Condition
- § 250: When a Statement or an Act Is a Repudiation
- § 251: When a Failure to Give Assurance May Be Treated as a Repudiation
- § 256: Nullification of Repudiation or Basis for Repudiation
- § 257: Effect of Urging Performance in Spite of Repudiation
- § 261: Discharge by Supervening Impracticability
- § 262: Death or Incapacity of Person Necessary for Performance
- § 263: Destruction, Deterioration or Failure to Come Into Existence of Thing Necessary for Performance
- § 264: Prevention by Governmental Regulation or Order
- § 265: Discharge by Supervening Frustration
- § 278: Substituted Performance
- § 279: Substituted Contract
- § 280: Novation
- § 302: Intended and Incidental Beneficiaries
- § 304: Creation of Duty to Beneficiary
- § 311: Variation of a Duty to a Beneficiary
- § 344: Purposes of Remedies
- § 345: Judicial Remedies Available
- § 346: Availability of Damages
- § 347: Measure of Damages in General
- § 348: Alternatives to Loss in Value of Performance
- § 349: Damages Based on Reliance Interest
- § 350: Avoidability as a Limitation on Damages
- § 351: Unforeseeability and Related Limitations on Damages
- § 352: Uncertainty as a Limitation on Damages
- § 355: Punitive Damages
- § 356: Liquidated Damages and Penalties
- § 357: Availability of Specific Performance and Injunction
- § 360: Factors Affecting Adequacy of Damages
- § 365: Effect of Public Policy
- § 374: Restitution in Favor of Party in Breach
- § 378: Election Among Remedies
U.C.C. (Full)
- 1-201: General Definitions
- 1-303: Course of Performance, Course of Dealing, and Usage of Trade
- 1-304: Obligation of Good Faith
- 1-305: Remedies to be Liberally Administered
- 2-102: Scope; Certain Security and Other Transactions Excluded From This Article
- 2-103: Definitions and Index of Definitions
- 2-104: Definitions: "Merchant"; "Between Merchants"; "Financing Agency"
- 2-105: Definitions: Transferability; "Goods"; "Future" Goods; "Lot"; "Commercial Unit"
- 2-106: Definitions: "Contract"; "Agreement"; "Contract for sale"; "Sale"; "Present sale"; "Conforming" to Contract; "Termination"; "Cancellation"
- 2-107: Goods to Be Severed From Realty: Recording
- 2-201: Formal Requirements; Statute of Frauds
- 2-202: Final Written Expression: Parol or Extrinsic Evidence
- 2-204: Formation in General
- 2-205: Firm Offers
- 2-206: Offer & Acceptance in Formation of Contract
- 2-207: Additional Terms in Acceptance or Confirmation (aka “Battle of the Forms”)
- 2-208: Course of Performance or Practical Construction
- 2-209: Modification, Rescission and Waiver
- 2-210: Delegation of Performance; Assignment of Rights
- 2-302: Unconscionable Contract or Clause
- 2-305: Open Price Term
- 2-306: Output, Requirements and Exclusive Dealings
- 2-308: Absence of Specified Place for Delivery
- 2-309: Absence of Specific Time Provisions; Notice of Termination
- 2-313: Express Warranties by Affirmation, Promise, Description, Sample
- 2-314: Implied Warranty: Merchantability; Usage of Trade
- 2-315: Implied Warranty: Fitness for Particular Purpose
- 2-316: Exclusion or Modification of Warranties
- 2-317: Cumulation and Conflict of Warranties Express or Implied
- 2-507: Effect of Seller’s Tender; Delivery on Condition
- 2-511: Tender of Payment by Buyer; Payment by Check
- 2-601: Buyer’s Rights on Improper Delivery
- 2-603: Merchant Buyer's Duties as to Rightfully Rejected Goods
- 2-604: Buyer's Options as to Salvage of Rightfully Rejected Goods
- 2-606: What Constitutes Acceptance of Goods
- 2-609: Right to Adequate Assurance of Performance
- 2-610: Anticipatory Repudiation
- 2-611: Retraction of Anticipatory Repudiation
- 2-615: Excuse by Failure of Presupposed Conditions
- 2-703: Seller's Remedies in General
- 2-706: Seller’s Resale Including Contract For Resale
- 2-708: Sellers Damages for Non-Acceptance or Repudiation
- 2-714: Buyer's Damages for Non-delivery or Repudiation
- 2-710: Seller's Incidental Damages
- 2-712: "Cover"; Buyer's Procurement of Substitute Goods
- 2-713: Buyer's Damages for Non-delivery or Repudiation
- 2-714: Buyer's Damages for Breach in Regard to Accepted Goods
- 2-715: Buyer's Incidental and Consequential Damages
- 2-718: Liquidation or Limitation of Damages; Deposits
- 2-721: Remedies for Fraud
Restatement of Restitution & Unjust Enrichment (3rd) (Full)
Business Associations
Terms
- Absolute Majority
- Absolute Priority
- Accept a Demand
- Acquire (an entity)
- Actual Authority
- Actual Control
- Administrative Dissolution
- Advancement
- Agency
- Agency by Estoppel
- Agency by Agreement or Contract
- Agency by Ratification
- Agency by Operation of Law
- Agency Termination
- Agent
- Agreement of Merger
- Alter Ego
- Annual Report
- Anonymous Entity
- Antitakeover Laws
- Apparent Authority
- Appraisal Right
- Arms Length
- Articles of Incorporation
- Articles of Merger
- Articles of Organization
- Artificial Entity
- Assess
- Assessable Share
- Asset
- Asset Protection
- Assign
- Auditing
- Authorized Shares
- Benefit Company (Oregon)
- Blue Sky Laws
- Business Judgment Rule
- Buy-Out
- Bylaws
- Capital Gains Tax
- C-Corporation
- Closely Held Corporation
- Coco Bonds
- Commingle
- Complusory Winding up
- Conflict of Interest
- Conflicted Transactions
- Controller
- Convey
- Corporate Opportunity Doctrine
- Corporate Opportunity Waiver
- Corporate Transparency Act
- Corporate Veil
- Corporation
- Corporation by Estoppel
- Cumulative Voting
- Dealer
- De facto Corporation
- Deference in Business Law
- Derivative Suit
- Direct Listing
- Direct Suit
- Director
- Director Primacy
- Disassociation
- Dividend
- Disregarded Entity
- Dissolution
- Distribution
- Duty of Care
- Duty of Loyalty
- Duty of Oversight
- Emerging Growth Company.
- Empty Voting
- Entire Fairness Standard
- ESG
- Exculpation/Exculpatory Provision
- Fair Use
- Fair Value
- Fiduciary Duty
- Financial Statements
- Freeze Out
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- General Journal
- General Ledger
- General Partnerships
- Going Concern
- Goodwill
- Greenshoe Option
- High Quality Liquid Asset
- Hostile Takeover
- Independent Contractor
- Internal Affairs Doctrine
- International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
- Initial Public Offer
- Insolvency
- Investment Bank
- IPO Roadshow
- Joint Venture
- Judicial Dissolution
- Legal Personhood
- Letter of Intent
- Liability
- Limited Liability Company
- Limited Liability Partnership
- Limited Partnership
- Liquidation
- Lock-Up Period
- Members and Managers
- Merger
- Monopsony
- Negative Externalities
- Nonprofit Organization
- Novation
- Officers
- Operating Agreement
- Over-Voting
- Par Value
- Partnership Agreement
- Partnership by Estoppel
- Proxy Voting
- Projection
- Piercing the Corporate Veil
- Preference Shares
- Promoter
- Quitclaim Deed
- Quorum
- Right of First Refusal
- Reinstatement
- Reverse Stock Splits
- Revlon Rule
- S-Corporation
- Security
- Shareholder Meeting
- Shareholder Primacy
- Shareholder Voting
- Share Subscription Agreement
- Sole Proprietorship
- SPAC
- Squeeze-out Mergers
- Stock Buybacks
- Surviving Company
- Team Production Model
- Venture Capital
- Voluntary Winding Up
- Winding Up
Cases
- Activision Blizzard, Inc., v. Hayes (2013)
- Amfac v. International System & Controls Corp (1982)
- AP Smith Manufacturing Co v Barlow (1953)
- Arguello v. Conoco, Inc. (2000)
- Aronson v. Lewis (1984)
- Benihana of Tokyo Inc v Benihana Inc. (2006)
- Blasius Industries, Inc. v. Atlas Corp. (1988)
- Broz v Cellular Information Systems (1996)
- Citizens United v. FEC (2010)
- Clark v. Dodge (1936)
- Cortez v. Nacco, Inc. (2014)
- Corwin v. KKR Financial Holdings LLC (2015)
- Digital Realty Trust v. Somers (2018)
- Dirks v. SEC (1983)
- Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. (1919)
- eBay Domestic Holdings, Inc. v. Newmark (2010)
- Elf Atochem N. America, Inc. v. Jaffari (1999)
- Fenwick v. Unemployment Compensation Commission (1945)
- Fliegler v. Lawrence (1976)
- Francis v. United Jersey Bank (1981)
- Frigidaire Sales Corp. v. Union Properties, Inc. (1977)
- FrontFour Capital Group LLC v. Taube (2019)
- Giles v. Giles Land Co. (2012)
- Hill v. Gold (2022)
- In re Caremark International Inc. Derivative Litigation (1996)
- In Re McDonald's Corporate Stockholders Derivative Litigation (2023)
- In re Walt Disney Co. Derivative Litigation (2005)
- Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Inc v. U.S. (1968)
- James v. NRA (2022)
- Kamin v. American Express Company (1976)
- Majestic Realty Associates, Inc. v. Toti Contracting Co. (1959)
- Marchand v. Barnhill (2019)
- Martin v. Peyton (1927)
- McDermott Inc. v. Lewis (1987)
- McLaughlin v. Schenk (2009)
- Meehan v. Shaughnessy (1989)
- Meinhard v. Salmon (1928)
- Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. (1970)
- National Biscuit Company v. Stroud (1959)
- NetJets Aviation, Inc. v. LHC Communications, LLC (2008)
- Owen v. Cohen (1941)
- Perlman v. Feldmann' (1955)
- Putnam v. Shoaf (1981)
- Radaszewski v. Telecom Corp. (1992)
- Rash v. J.V. Intermediate, Ltd. (2007)
- Revlon, Inc. v. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc. (1986)
- Rosenfeld v. Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. (1955)
- Sandvick v. LaCrosse (2008)
- Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Pepper Source (1991)
- SEC v. W.J. Howey Co. (1946)
- Shlensky v. Wrigley (1968)
- Sinclair Oil Corp. v. Levien (1971)
- Smith v. Van Gorkom (1985)
- Southex Exhibitions, Inc. v. Rhode Island Builders Assoc., Inc. (2002)
- Stone v. Ritter (2006)
- State ex rel. Pillsbury v. Honeywell, Inc. (1971)
- Town & Country House & Home Service, Inc. v. Newbery (1958)
- Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
- United States v. Bonds (2010)
- United States v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (2016)
- United States ex rel. Kraus v. Wells Fargo & Co. (2019)
- United States v. O’Hagan (1997)
- Wilkes v. Springside Nursing Home, Inc. (1976)
- Williams Companies Stockholder Litigation (2021)
- Young v. Jones (1992)
- Zahn v. Transamerica Corp. (1947)
- Zapata Corp. v. Maldonado (1981)
Restatement of Agency (3rd) (Full)
Upper-Level Electives
Terms
- Security
- Securities: statutory definition
- Securities as ownership in corporations, LLCs, and Partnerships
- Common Enterprise
- The Howey Elements
- Cryptocurrency
- Mutual Funds
- Passive Investing
- Public Offerings
- International Public Offerings
- Underwriting
- Registration
- Securities Legislation
- Real Estate as Securities
- Notes as Securities
- Exempt Securities
- Rule 10b-5
- Inflation
- Monetary Sovereignty
- Public Money
- Private Liquidity Premium
- Public Funds
- Debt
- Hedge Fund
- Regulation A
- Regulation Crowdfunding
- Regulation S
Cases
- Basic, Inc. v. Levinson (1988)
- Brett v. Gilbert (1605) (Mixt Monies)
- Briscoe v. Bank of Kentucky (1837)
- Gallagher v. Abbott Laboratories (7th Cir. 2001)
- Gold Clause Cases (1935)
- Landreth Timber Co. v. Landreth (1985)
- Legal Tender Cases (1870/1884)
- Marine Bank v. Weaver (1984)
- Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano (2011)
- McCullogh v. Maryland (1819)
- Salameh v. Tarsadia Hotel (9th Cir. 2013)
- SEC v. C.M. Joiner Leasing Corp. (1943).
- SEC v. Ralston Purina Co. (1953).
- SEC v. W.J. Howey Co. (1946)
- United Housing Foundation, Inc. v. Forman (1975)
- United States v. Leonard (2d Cir. 2008)
- United States v. Wells Fargo (2019)
- Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder (1976)
- Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. Green (1977)