LAW 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Specific Performance, South African Contract Law, Consequential Damages
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Identify and describe elements of contract law as a source of liability for business. In the previous module, the concept of tort law or tort liability was introduced as 1 of the 2 pillars of civil liability or perhaps civil regulation of business. The other is contract law, which we"ll be discussing in this module. They are the primary pieces of law that underlie all the regulation of business we have in this country. Remember that we don"t rely on criminal law, we rely on our civil law concepts, and tort law and contract law are by far the most important aspects of that. They are so important that if you were to go to law school you would take contract and tort law in your 1st year for a full year. Intro to contract law van halen and m&ms. Contract law is a very complicated area of law that can be fascinating with multiple interesting cases.