Legally binding contract

Assume that you are in Week 5 of your Legal Environment and Contract Law class at Peru State College. Your professor posts the following message on the discussion board:

“Dear Students,

I would like to see each of you do well in this course and complete it successfully. To give you additional incentive, I promise to pay $100 to every student who earns an A grade for the course. After all grades are posted, I will send a money order in the amount of $100 to the home addresses of those students who have earned an A. Please be sure to provide your home address on your final exam paper, so that I can send you the $100 I have promised. Good luck! Work hard in this course!

Sincerely,

Your Professor”

Assume that you earn an A in the course, but you have never received the $100 you expected. When you email your professor about it, she says that it was not a legally binding contract and that you cannot enforce the payment of the $100.

Choose the side of the student or the professor and make the most convincing argument you can about why the $100 payment is or is not legally enforceable. Remember to consider all of the elements of a legally binding contract and consider whether they are or are not all present in this scenario.

Let the arguments begin!

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Requirements of a legally binding contact

For a contact to be considered as legally binding, it must abide to all the elements of a contract. There are four elements that should be adhered to in making of a legally binding contract. These are; an offer, acceptance of the offer, an intent for legal consequences and consideration. The case of the tutor and students obeys all the four elements of a legally binding contract and therefore, the tutor is bound to keep the promise and……………….

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