2. The Law of Contracts.
Professor Graves.
In this class, coming appropriately at the beginning of the Junior
year, an effort is made to give a thorough, though elementary, course in
the fundamentals of contract law—the formation, operation, and discharge
of contracts—with a full discussion of the doctrine of consideration, the
requirements of the Statute of Frauds, and the consequences of the various
kinds of illegality, whether at common law or by statute. The important
subject of Quasi-Contract also receives adequate attention. The textbook
on Contracts (Clark, following the analysis of Anson) is accompanied
by a volume of Illustrative Cases, and is supplemented by the Professor's
Printed Notes, explaining obscurities in the text, and calling attention to
the recent cases in Virginia and elsewhere.—September 16 to December 21
—Three times a week.
Text-Books.—Clark on Contracts (2d ed.); Hopkins's Cases on Contracts;
The Professor's Printed Notes.
