Tauber v. Quan

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that default provisions were not material because they did not alter the parties’ expectations about how the contract was to be performed, and therefore their omission did not prevent the contract from being binding
• applying concept of “reasonable definiteness in the essential terms of a purported contract” so that a court may determine “whether a breach has occurred”
• “[0]ne who signs a receipt or other document cannot generally avoid it on grounds of a voluntary failure to read it.”
• \[I]t is routine for courts to enforce contracts to purchase real estate by ordering that they be specifically performed.\
• “When land is the subject matter of the agreement, the legal remedy is assumed to be inadequate, since each parcel of land is unique;” therefore, “it is routine for courts to enforce contracts to purchase real estate by ordering that they be specifically performed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).