1. Contract Law in Outline
Privity, third-party rights, assignment, professional and standard-form contracts, consumer transactions, illegality and restraint.
How to study the CPQ Foundation stage
Prepare each separately assessed component on its own terms, then connect law, regulation, client service and research across the full stage.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Contract rights usually bind parties, subject to statutory third-party rights and assignment rules.
Exam cue: Identify parties, capacity and the professional or consumer context.
Concept 2
Professional, employment, insurance, commercial and consumer contexts affect applicable terms and protections.
Exam cue: Separate assignment of benefit from transfer of burden.
Concept 3
Illegality, public policy and restraint of trade can prevent or limit enforcement.
Exam cue: Test restrictive or exclusionary wording against statute and public policy.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Assuming any third party can enforce a benefit.
Guardrail: Do not mix module boundaries, confuse marks with item counts, exceed professional authority or rely on an outdated or unverified legal source.
Treating all standard terms as automatically incorporated.
Guardrail: Do not mix module boundaries, confuse marks with item counts, exceed professional authority or rely on an outdated or unverified legal source.
Enforcing an unlawful bargain without analysing consequences.
Guardrail: Do not mix module boundaries, confuse marks with item counts, exceed professional authority or rely on an outdated or unverified legal source.
Memory anchors
Privity check
Who promised, who received and does statute confer third-party enforcement?
Context controls
Professional, business, employment, insurance and consumer rules differ.
Assignment
Benefits may be assigned subject to rules; burdens generally require consent or novation.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
A contract expressly gives a named beneficiary a right to enforce a term. Which statute may support enforcement?
What is the traditional privity rule?
Answer all questions to submit.
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Move forward only after this module is stable.
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