Declaratory Judgment

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