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chapter 11
Performance and Agreement and Impossibility of performance and Operation of law
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Business
11th Grade
03/02/2012

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Discharged
Definition

When a contract ends

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Performance
Definition

The parties fulfill the terms of the contract by doing what they had earlier promised

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Complete performance
Definition
When all the terms of a contract have been carried out properly and completely
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Reasonable time
Definition

The time that suitable, fair, and proper to the objective in view

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Tender
Definition
Offer to do what you have agreed to do under the terms of a contract
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Legal Tender
Definition
U.S. coin or currency
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Mutual Release
Definition

An agreement between two parties to end an agreement

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Accord and satisfaction
Definition

Contract is discharged when one party to an agreement agrees to accept performance from the other party that is different from what was agreed upon in the original contract

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Impossibility of performance
Definition

The situation in which it is legally impossible to fulfill the obligations of the agreement

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Operation of law
Definition

A contract is discharged by a count because it is in the best interest of society

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Statute of limitations
Definition
The law that specifies the time within which a contract may be legally enforced
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Bankruptcy laws
Definition

A set procedure for discharging a debtor’s obligations. The obligations still exist, but the debtor can no longer be imprisoned for failure to pay

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Substantial performance

Definition

A slightly less than full performance. Someone has fulfilled the major requirements of a contract in good faith, leaving only minor details incomplete

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