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Declaratory Judgment
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Postgraduate Remedies Mind Map on Declaratory Judgment, created by paula.angelique on 06/07/2013.
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Declaratory Judgment
1) an actual justiciable controversy
2) Court has power to declare rights, status, and other legal relations (doesn't matter if further relief could be claimed.
3) Declaration can be affirmative or negative in form and affect
4) had the force and effect of a final judgment
Ask: What's more important, the K remedy or preserving the status quo?
IF K Remedy, then:
Recission
Abrogates the K completely and each party is returned to his previous existing rights
1) must have a K
2) Must be able to place the other party in the status quo ante contractus
3) Recission must be total
4) Grounds for Recission must occur at or before the time when the K was entered into
Grounds
Fraud (may also sue at law for damages, but remedies are mutually exclussive
Misrep of a material fact
Mutual mistake of a material fact or law
Undue Influence or Duress
Illegality
Lack of Capacity
Failure/No consid
Repudiation/Anticipatory repudication
Reformation
When the actual writing doesn't conform to the agreement of the parties; designed to make the instrument speak the true intent of the parties
Elements
Must have been a meeting of the minds (Valid K)
a mutual mistake in executing an instrument which doesn't express the parties intent, or
a mistake on the part of one party and conduct on the part of the other so as to render it inequitable to deny a mutual mistake
Scriveners error
Hightened Standard of proof - clear and convicing
Specific Performance
A mandatory injuction in a contractural setting.
Elements
1) Valid K that is definite and certain
2) Remedy at law is inadequate (real property/unique chattels)
3) Any conditions precedent are met/excused
4) Mutuality of remedy exists
Both parties are capable of performing and the court can sufficiently secure the Plaintiff's counter- performance.
5) Enforcement is feasible
6) there are no defenses available to the defendant
If to Preserve the status quo, then:
Injunctions
is an equitable write commanding the rs to perform or to abstain from conduct; A mandatory injunction directs performance of a specific act
TRO
Preliminary Injunction
Receiver
Accounting
Writ Ne Exeat
Attachment
Tort?
Contract?
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