Outlines

Corporations

(1) Formation
-Promoters
-De Jure, De Facto, Estoppel
-PCV

(2) Capital Stock Structure
-Subscribers
-Consideration
-Redemption/Repurchase

(3) Stock Transactions
-CL: Misrepresentation
-Statute: 10b(5), 16(b), SBO

(4) Corporate Management
-Promoters, SH, D & O

(5) Fundamental Changes
-Merger
-Sale of Assets
-Amendment of Articles
-Dissolution & Liquidation

Agency

(1) Agency
-Formation (ABC + Capacity)
-Duties owed by A & P
-Remedies

(2) Authority
-Actual (E/I) or Apparent
-Ratification
-Termination

(3) Contract Liability 3rd Party
-Un/disclosed

(4) Tort Liability 3rd Party
-Scope

Partnership

(1) Formation

(2) Partnership Property

(3) Liability to 3rd

(4) Dissolution/Dissociation

(5) LP, LLP, LLLP, LLC

Civil Procedure

(1) PJDX
-Trad: present, consent, domicile
-Long-Arm
-Const Min. Contacts

(2) SMJDX
-Fed Question
-Diversity (complete + AIC)
-Supplemental

(3) Venue
-Resident

(4) Erie Doc. (Governing Law)

(5) Proper Pleadings

(6) Proper Parties/Claims

(7) Discovery

(8) Resolution w/o Trial

(9) Jury

(10) Appeal

(11) Claim/Issue Preclusion

Community Property

(1) General Presumptions

(2) Issues affecting all property
-Transmutation
-Prenuptial
-Death
-Divorce

(3) Special Presumptions re: Specific Assets & Debt
-PI Awards
-Retirement Benefits
-Disability/Work Comp
-Stock Options
-Bus/Prof Goodwill
-Education/training debt

(4) How was property acquired?
-w/ CP
-w/ SP

(5) Alteration of Property Character
-Antenuptial
-Transmutation
-Married Woman's Presumption
-Joint Ownership

(6) Enhance Value of SP w/ community labor
-Pereira
-Van Camp

(7) Management During Marriage

(8) Distribution
-At divorce
-At death
-Quasi-CP

(9) Fed Preemption

Constitutional Law

(1) Justiciability
-ripe, abstention, moot
-political question
-standing
-11th amendment

--Classify the Issue--

(2) Separation of Power

(3) Federal Legislative power
-Commerce
-Taxing and Spending
-Etc.

(4) State Interference w/ Federal System
-Supremacy Clause
-DCC
-P&I / P or I

(5) Individual Rights (SSTRREPS)
-State action
-Speech
-Taking
-Religion
-Retroactive Legislation
-Equal Protection
-Procedural DP
-Substantive DP

Contracts

(1) Governing Law
-UCC v. CL

(2) Formation
-O, A, C

(3) Defenses to Formation
-SOF
-Mistake
-Illegality
-Incapacity
-Unconscionable
-Fraud/Duress

(4) Terms
-2-207
-Interpretation
-Modification
-Parol Evidence

(5) 3rd Parties
-Beneficiaries
-Assignment/Delegation

(6) Performance
-Conditions
-Discharge
-Anticipatory Repudiation
-Breach (Maj. Min.)

(7) Remedies
-Compensatory Damages
-Consequential Damages
-Restitution
-Rescission
-Reformation
-Specific Performance

Criminal Procedure

(1) 4th Amendment Arrest

(2) 4th Amendment Seizure & Seizure
-Gov. Conduct
-Expectation of Privacy
-Warrant/Exception
-Exclusionary Rule

(3) 5th Amendment
-Miranda
-Double Jeopardy

(4) 6th Amendment
-Counsel
-Speedy Trial
-Jury Trial
-Confront (hearsay issues arise)

(5) 8th Amendment
-Cruel/Unusual Punishment
-Death Penalty

(6) 14th Amendment DP
-Burden of proof
-Suggestive Id's

Criminal Law

(1) General Principals
-Actus Reus
-Mens Rea
-Concurrence
-Causation

(2) Accomplice
-Specific Intent
-Accessory After the Fact
-Withdrawal

(3) Inchoate
-Solicitation (merges)
-Conspiracy (does not merge)
-Attempt (specific intent, merges)

(4) Crimes Against the Person
-Homicide: 1st & 2nd Murder, VMS, IVMS
-Assault and Battery
-Rape
-Kidnapping
-Mayhem

(5) Crimes Against Property
-Larceny (permanently deprive)
-Embezzlement (rightful possession)
-False Pretenses (title passes)
-Larceny by Trick (not trespassory)
-Receiving Stolen Property

(6) Crimes Against Person and Property
-Robbery (present physical force/threat)
-Extortion (any force/threat)

(7) Crimes Against Real Property
-Arson (charing)
-Burglary (felony therein)

(8) Crimes Against the Public
-Forgery
-Misprision (failing to report a felony)
-Bigamy (:D)

(9) Defenses
-Defense of Self, Other, Property
-Insanity (M'N, Ir. Imp, ALI, Durham)
-Intoxication (V/IV)
-Entrapment
-Mistake (F/L)
-Age/Infancy
-Necessity
-Duress (not homicide)

Evidence

(1) Form
-Objections

(2) Purpose
-Logical Relevance
-Legal Relevance
-Character

(3) Presentation: Witness
-Competency
-Personal knowledge
-Impeachment

(4) Presentation: Document
-Authentication
-BER

(5) Presentation: Other
-Opinion (lay/expert)
-Judicial Notice
-Burdens of Proof
-Presumptions

(6) Hearsay
-Out of court, statement, truth
-Exemptions (admissions)
-Exceptions

(7) Privileges

Professional Responsibility

(1) To Client
-Loyalty
-Silence
-Competence
-Financial Integrity

(2) To 3rd Parties
-Opposing parties
-Accept representation
-Prosecutors' Special Duty

(3) To Court
-Candor
-Honesty
-Witnesses and Jurors

(4) To Profession
-Unauthorized practice
-Advertisement
-Solicitation

Real Property

(1) Possessory Interest
-Present
-Future

(2) Landlord-Tenant
-Type of Lease
-T's Duty (pay, repair, illegal use)
-LL's Duty (Delivery, Quiet Enjoyment, Habitability)
-Abandonment by T

(3) Concurrent Estates
-JT, TC, TE

(4) Easements
-+/-
-Creation (e, i, p, n)
-Enforcement
-Termination

(5) Servitudes
-+/-
-Running benefit/burden
-Implied Reciprocal

(6) License
-Irrevocable? (estoppel, interest)
-Failed easement

(7) Profits
-Easement + Removal

(8) Equitable Servitude
-Failed covenant enforced in equity

(9) Support/Water
-Lateral (improved land?)
-Subjacent (improved land/water)

(10) Conveyancing
-Land Sale K
-Deed
-Covenants of title
-Recording
-Mortgages

(11) Adverse Possession
-Open and notorious
-Actual and exclusive
-Continuous for period
-Hostile w/ claim of right

Remedies

(1) Legal Remedy
-Damages
-Restitution (replevin, ejectment)

--IF Legal Remedy Inadequate--

(2) Equitable Remedy
-Restitution (constructive trust, equitable lien)
-Injunction (IPFBD)
-Specific Performance (IDFMD)
-Defenses (laches, uch, 1st A, hardship)

Torts

(1) Intentional Torts
-Battery
-Assault
-IIED
-Trespass to Chattel/Conversion
-Trespass to Land
-Nuisance

(2) Defenses to Intentional Torts
-Consent (capacity, e/i , scope)
-Defense of self, other, property

(3) Miscellaneous Intentional Torts
-Abuse of process
-Interference with a contract
-Trade Libel

(4) Defamation
-Def Stmt, about π, published, injury
-Falsity
-Defenses (truth,privilege)

(5) Invasion of Privacy
-Appropriation
-Intrusion upon seclusion
-False Light
-Private Facts

(6) Negligence
-d,b,c,d
-Per Se
-Res Ipsa
-Defenses (contributory, comparative, assumption of risk)

(7) Strict Liability
-Animals
-Abnormally Dangerous
-Products

(8) Vicarious Liability

(9) Joint Liability

Wills

(1) Execution
-Attested (2 wits)
-Holographic (handwritten material terms)
-Testamentary Capacity
-Conflict of laws (executed, created, domiciled)

(2) Revocation
-Subsequent will (watch for DRR)
-Physical Act
-Insane delusion
-Fraud

(3) Components
-Integration
-Republication
-Incorporation by reference
-Acts of independent significance

(4) Interpretation
-Extrinsic Evidence (latent/patent ambiguity)
-Anti/Lapse (kindred+issue)
-Ademption (extinction/satisfaction)

(5) Intestate Succession
-w/ spouse, w/ children, etc.
-Adoption, step-children
-Advancement
-Simultaneous death (120 hr)

(6) Omitted Spouse/Children

(7) Bars to Succession
-Homicide
-Elder abuse
-No consent clause

Trusts

(1) Creation
-Trustor
-Delivery
-Intent (present)
-Trust Res
-Beneficiaries
-Purpose (PP/Laws)

(2) Types
-Discretionary
-Spendthrift
-Honorary
-Semi/secret
-Revocable
-Totten (bank acct)
-Charitable (cy pres)

(3) Modification and Termination
-Trustor + Beneficiary consent to modify
-Claflin Doc. (can't mod if material purpose exists)
-Changed Circumstances

(4) Trustee Duties (I C DEALS)
-Invest (Prudent Investor Rule)
-Care
-Don't Delegate
-Earmark
-Account
-Loyalty
-Segregate