LAW 101 Chapter Notes -Severance Package, Parol Evidence Rule
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The defendant, jacobs, the owner of sataria offered a job to the plaintiff, hinkel in 2005. Jacobs orally offered him one year"s salary and to cover his insurance, but if hinkel quit the agreement was off. Later, a written offer was sent, and this oral agreement was not included. Hinkel signed it and jacobs fired him over a year later and paid him six weeks" severance but not the one year he promised in the previous oral agreement. Legal principle: is the evidence admissible, no. The conditions of the first agreement that was offered orally were not included in the later written agreement. The conditions should have been included in the new agreement. The oral agreement is not a contract modification. It could have simply been added to it but it was not. The last agreement is the final form and everything prior is not included.
