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$250.00📘 Action on Account — Common Law and Statutory Principles of Open Accounts
🧭 Course Overview
This class explores the common law and statutory framework of the action on account, an essential commercial remedy for recovery of sums due from mutual or successive transactions between parties. This Class examines open accounts, book accounts, and related procedural forms as they appear in modern civil practice.
Participants study how open accounts differ from contracts, how pleadings and proofs are structured, and how courts determine liability, burden of proof, and defenses under both common law and statutory regimes.
🎓 Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Define “action on account” and distinguish between open accounts, book accounts, and accounts stated within the broader framework of contract law.
- Identify statutory and procedural requirements governing declarations, petitions, and proofs, including the attachment of itemized statements or invoices to pleadings .
- Explain evidentiary standards and burdens of proof, including how plaintiffs establish correctness, reasonableness of charges, and performance, and how defendants assert credits or affirmative defenses .
- Analyze common defenses and counterclaims, such as payment, setoff, and lack of consideration, and evaluate how courts assess these at trial .
- Apply rules governing variance, pleading, and admissibility of evidence to determine when a case can proceed on an open account versus an account stated .
- Interpret judicial reasoning in cases involving directed verdicts, jury questions, and statutory time limitations under modern procedural codes .
🧩 Topics Covered
- Definition and scope of open and book accounts
- Pleading requirements and itemized statements
- Burden and mode of proof
- Admissibility and sufficiency of evidence
- Defenses and counterclaims
- Trial, verdict, and judgment in account actions
- Statutory nature of book debt remedies
📚 Format & Materials
- Delivery: Lecture and case analysis with guided readings from statutory and common-law authorities
- Duration: 8 Classes | Self-paced study
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$125.00⚖️ Action of Debt — Common Law Remedies for Fixed Obligations
Course Type: Legal Foundations
🧭 Course Overview
This class provides a structured study of the common-law action of debt—a foundational legal remedy for recovering sums certain or obligations readily reducible to certainty. Students examine the action’s procedural elements, pleading rules, defenses, and enduring relevance in modern commercial and statutory claims.
The course situates “debt” as both a legal concept and procedural form, showing how historical remedies inform today’s enforcement of monetary obligations, statutory penalties, and judgments.
🎓 Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define and distinguish “debt” within its common-law meaning and differentiate it from unliquidated claims or damages.
- Identify the essential elements of an action of debt, including the requirement of a sum certain and the obligation’s enforceability in money.
- Analyze pleadings and defenses—such as nil debet, non est factum, and nul tiel record—and apply them to case examples.
- Trace procedural evolution from medieval common law to modern civil practice under state codes and procedural acts.
- Evaluate judgment and recovery mechanisms, including damages for detention, interest awards, and statutory debt enforcement.
- Compare debt and assumpsit actions to understand concurrent remedies and the shift from form to substance in contract litigation.
🧩 Topics Covered
- Definition and nature of “debt”
- Scope and concurrent actions
- Elements and certainty of sum
- Pleadings and declarations
- Common defenses and pleas
- Proof, trial, and judgment standards
- Amount recoverable and award of interest
📚 Format
- Delivery: Lecture-based with discussion on case law excerpts and procedural forms
- Duration: 10 small classes | Self-paced study
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$100.00Phone consultations are offered during regular business hours and/or after hours. The hours for Phone Consultations are as follows;
09:00 – 17:00 EST at a cost of $75.00 per hour
17:01 – 21:00 EST at a cost of $100.00 per hour
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Everything in Basic, plus access to recorded live discussions available on our website. These sessions offer in-depth analyses and insights on current events, keeping you ahead of the curve. For just $25 more, you’ll gain valuable content to deepen your understanding.
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$600.00 / year“Stay Informed”
Everything in Basic, plus access to recorded live discussions available on our website. These sessions offer in-depth analyses and insights on current events, keeping you ahead of the curve. With this annual plan, you’ll gain valuable content to deepen your understanding.
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$900.00 / year“Get Personalized Guidance”
Includes all TV Episodes benefits, plus three hours of private phone consultations each month. Schedule personalized sessions with our experts to get tailored advice and explore your specific interests. This is an annual plan
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$375.00Professional document consultation services including typing, review, analysis, and correction of legal documents are available at $125.00 per hour with a three (3) hour minimum retainer required in advance. Services are provided exclusively during regular business hours. Consultations include dedicated professional attention and resources throughout the retained period, conducted via telephone or videoconference (Zoom). Sessions may be scheduled in blocks up to eight (8) hours daily, subject to availability. To schedule document review services or discuss your specific needs, please submit a consultation request or contact form. Advance scheduling is required to ensure availability. What is included is my full attention. This is done by phone or zoom. We will go over the documents together with my resources for the full amount of time that you have requested up to 8 hours a day. For more information reach out via a consultation or by contact form to discuss scheduling this as it does require planning to schedule this.
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$1,200.00📜 Law of Contracts — Formation, Obligation, and Enforcement of Agreements
🧭 Course Overview
This class provides a foundational exploration of the Law of Contracts, the body of doctrine governing the creation, interpretation, and enforcement of legally binding agreements. Building upon centuries of common-law evolution, the course examines how voluntary promises become enforceable obligations — and how failure of performance, mistake, or impossibility affects their validity.
Drawing from key judicial precedents, the course offers a detailed study of contract formation, consideration, conditions, breach, and remedies. Students will learn how courts balance freedom of contract with public policy limitations, and how equity interacts with law in enforcing or rescinding obligations.
🎓 Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Define and explain the elements of a valid contract, including offer, acceptance, consideration, and mutual assent.
- Distinguish between types of contracts, such as express, implied, unilateral, bilateral, and quasi-contractual obligations.
- Apply rules of interpretation, including the parol evidence rule, intent of parties, and construction against the drafter.
- Evaluate issues of validity, such as capacity, legality, mistake, duress, fraud, and unconscionability.
- Analyze remedies for breach, including damages, restitution, rescission, and specific performance.
- Interpret the relationship between contract law and equity, including doctrines of estoppel and waiver.
🧩 Topics Covered
- Nature and classification of contracts
- Formation and essential elements
- Consideration and mutual assent
- Interpretation and performance
- Breach and discharge of obligations
- Equitable and legal remedies
- Defenses to enforcement
📚 Format & Materials
- Delivery: Lecture-based with case interpretation, and scenario analysis
- Duration: 40 Classes | Self-paced study
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$500.00💳 Law of Payments — Legal Discharge and Settlement under Commercial Law
🧭 Course Overview
This class examines the law of payment — the doctrines, statutory rules, and equitable principles governing the satisfaction, discharge, and extinguishment of obligations. Rooted in common-law concepts of tender and performance, the law of payment defines how debt and liability are lawfully settled in both commercial and personal contexts.
This course analyzes the evolution of payment from tangible tender to negotiable instruments and digital transfers, exploring the elements that constitute valid payment, the roles of payor and payee, and the legal consequences of acceptance, mistake, or refusal.
🎓 Learning Outcomes
Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Define “payment” in law and distinguish it from tender, accord and satisfaction, and performance.
- Identify the essential elements of lawful payment, including voluntary intent, lawful currency or medium, and acceptance by the creditor.
- Apply common-law and statutory rules that determine when a debt is extinguished or merely suspended.
- Analyze payment through instruments — such as checks, promissory notes, and electronic transfers — under UCC Articles 3 and 4.
- Evaluate the rights and duties of parties, including payment by third persons, payment under mistake, and recovery of overpayment.
- Interpret judicial reasoning on disputes involving partial payment, conditional payment, and discharge through non-cash equivalents.
🧩 Topics Covered
- Definition and nature of payment
- Relation between payment, tender, and discharge
- Payment by money, negotiable instruments, and credit instruments
- Payment under mistake or duress
- Allocation of payments and order of application
- Presumption and burden of proof
- Effect of payment on joint obligations and suretyship
📚 Format & Materials
- Delivery: Lecture-based with applied statutory analysis and case study exercises
- Duration: 27 Class | Self-paced study
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$1,200.00 / year“Master Advanced Strategies”
Everything in Freedom, plus access to recordings of our Saturday classes, posted on the website. These sessions cover advanced topics and strategies, equipping you with the knowledge to excel. For $100, you’re investing in a richer learning experience. This is an annual Subscription.
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$75.00Phone consultations are offered during regular business hours and/or after hours. The hours for Phone Consultations are as follows;
09:00 – 17:00 EST at a cost of $75.00 per hour
17:01 – 21:00 EST at a cost of $100.00 per hour
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