Contract Performance and Discharge

Free CPA REG (Taxation & Regulation) lesson in Business Law. 14 min read, ~2,168 words.

Substantial performance: minor good-faith deviation → recover price minus the lesser of cost to cure or diminution in value. Conditions: precedent (gates duty), concurrent (simultaneous), subsequent (extinguishes duty). Common law modifications need new consideration; UCC §2-209 modifications need only good faith. Accord suspends original duty; satisfaction discharges it. Impossibility (objective)...

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