NIGERIAN LAW OF CONTRACT: SIMPLIFIED (2016) by Peter K. Fogam

Contents

CLASSIFICATION OF CONTRACTS

• Formal Contracts
• Simple Contracts
• Other Types of Contracts
• Bilateral Contracts
• Unilateral Contracts
• Express and Implied Contracts
• Quasi-Contracts

AGREEMENT

• Offer and Acceptance
• Offer
• Acceptance
• Mode of Acceptance
• Communication of Acceptance
• Exceptions
• Termination of Offer
• Revocation
• Lapse of Time
• Failure of a Condition
• Death
• Rejection
• Revision Questions

CONSIDERATION

• Nature and Definition
• What is Consideration?
• Rules Governing Consideration
• Waiver of a Contractual Right
• Promissory Estoppel
• Limitations to the Doctrine of Promissory Estoppel
• Revision Questions

INTENTION TO CREATE LEGAL RELATIONS

• Commercial Agreements
• Collective Agreements
• Revision Questions

CONTRACTUAL TERMS

• Conditions and Warranties
• Exemptions, Exclusion or Limitation Clauses
• Fundamental Breach and Exclusion Clauses
• Revision Questions

CAPACITY TO CONTRACT

• Infants
• Voidable Contracts
• Void Contracts
• The Liability of Infants in Tort
• Restitution by the Infant
• Insane Persons
• Drunken Persons
• Corporations
• The Consequences of Non-Compliance
• Revision Questions

THE CONSENT OF THE PARTIES

• Mistake
• Common Mistake
• Mutual Mistake
• Unilateral Mistake
• The Effect of Mistake
• Mistake at Common Law
• Mistake as to the Subject-Matter
• Mistake as to Terms and Parties
• Mistake in Equity
• Rescission
• Rectification
• Refusal of Specific Performance
• Documents Mistakenly Signed
• Revision Questions

MISREPRESENTATION

• Types of Misrepresentation
• Fraudulent
• Innocent
• Negligent
• Remedies for Misrepresentation
• Rescission
• Damages
• Duress and Undue Influence
• Duress
• Undue Influence
• Revision Questions

ILLEGAL CONTRACTS

• Contracts Illegal by Statute
• Illegal as Formed
• Illegal as Performed
• Contracts Illegal at Common Law
• The Effect of Illegal Contracts
• Exceptions to the In Pari Delicto Rule
• Contracts in Restraint of Trade
• The Test of Reasonableness
• Restraints in a Contract of Employment
• Restraints in a Contract of Sale of a Business
• Restraints in Other Contracts
• Revision Questions

PRIVITY OF CONTRACT

• Exceptions to the Doctrine of Privity of Contract
• Agency
• Trusts Assignment
• Covenants Relating to Land
• Statutory Exceptions
• Bankers’ Commercial Credits
• Revision Questions

DISCHARGE OF CONTRACT

• Discharge by Performance
• Severable (or Divisible) Contracts
• Partial Performance
• Substantial Performance
• Prevention of Performance
• Discharge by Frustration
• Destruction of Subject-Matter
• Non-Occurrence of an Event
• A Change in the Law
• Personal Incapacity
• Government Interference
• Outbreak of War
• The Limits to the Doctrine
• Self-Induced Events
• Express Provision in the Contract
• More Burdensome Obligation
• Temporary Impossibility
• Leases
• The Effects of Frustration
• Discharge by Breach
• Revision Questions

REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT

• Damages
• Remoteness of Damages
• Measure of Damages
• Mitigation of Loss
• Injunction
• Specific Performance
• Rescission
• Revision Questions