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 14 to December 23
—Three times a week.
Text-Books.—Clark on Contracts (2d ed.); Hopkins's Cases on Contracts; The
Professor's Printed Notes.
