PALG 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Appellate Court
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Not consideration - gifts, moral obligation, pre existing duties. Some special agreements that technically don"t qualify as contracts with consideration but enforce anyway - charitable, revival debtors, etc. Loretta scott king case (martin luther king wife) You can learn a lot about case by reading the citations. He made a charitable pledge to bu - papers. Claim papers belong to the estate not the school. His will appoints his wife as administrator of estate. The jury determined he made a charitable pledge with certain papers. Originally sued and trial court found in boston"s favor that it was either a pledge or a gift. The plaintiff sued bu for conversion - when you give property to hold, not to keep , but go use it anyway. Slower you read the cases the easier it is to understand. Loretta stated there was a contract or at least a charitable pledge. Defense raised charitable pledge, statute of limitations and laches (unreasonable delay)
