Special Classes

  • Accord and Satisfaction

    Accord and Satisfaction

    $250.00

    This course provides an in-depth educational examination of the doctrine commonly known as Accord and Satisfaction, presented strictly as legal information and academic study rather than advice, representation, or advocacy. The material is designed to help participants understand how this doctrine is discussed, analyzed, and evaluated within reported decisions and established legal literature. The focus is on concepts, terminology, historical development, and analytical frameworks that courts reference when resolving disputes involving settlement, compromise, and discharge of obligations. All instruction is informational in nature and intended to support lawful self-education and scholarly comprehension.

    Participants are guided through the structure of the doctrine in a methodical and neutral manner, including how agreements to settle disputes are distinguished from incomplete or conditional arrangements, how performance is evaluated in legal reasoning, and how acceptance and intent are interpreted in written decisions. Common misunderstandings are addressed by contrasting informal beliefs with how authoritative sources describe the doctrine, allowing students to recognize why certain approaches succeed or fail when examined by decision-makers. The discussion emphasizes reading comprehension of cases, statutes, and secondary authorities rather than instruction on how to act in any specific situation.

    This course is appropriate for individuals who wish to improve their legal literacy, analytical reading skills, and understanding of dispute-resolution concepts as they appear in published law. It is particularly suited for those engaged in independent study, historical or academic research, or general legal education. No legal advice is provided, no strategies are prescribed, and no jurisdiction-specific guidance is offered; instead, the course equips learners with a clearer conceptual foundation so they can better understand the language and reasoning found in authoritative legal sources.

  • Action on Debt

    Action on Debt

    $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:

    1. Define and distinguish “debt” within its common-law meaning and differentiate it from unliquidated claims or damages.
    2. Identify the essential elements of an action of debt, including the requirement of a sum certain and the obligation’s enforceability in money.
    3. Analyze pleadings and defenses—such as nil debet, non est factum, and nul tiel record—and apply them to case examples.
    4. Trace procedural evolution from medieval common law to modern civil practice under state codes and procedural acts.
    5. Evaluate judgment and recovery mechanisms, including damages for detention, interest awards, and statutory debt enforcement.
    6. 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
  • How to perfect the Administrative Process and your Ledger

    How to perfect the Administrative Process and your Ledger

    $300.00

    So many know about what is called the Administrative Process, but miss out on the small details. The small details are the biggest part of it. Also, the Administrative Process is part of the ledger or accounting process. This Class is planned to be starting on Sunday, January 28th at 15:00 Eastern time. The cost will be $200.00. This class will be done on Zoom. It will be recorded and all files that are discussed will be included. The Zoom link will be emailed out approximately 1 hour before class.

  • Law of Agency Class

    Law of Agency Class

    $700.00

    🧾 Law of Agency: Authority, Representation, and Liability in Legal Relations

    🧭 Course Overview

    This class introduces the Law of Agency, the body of doctrine governing how one person, the agent, acts on behalf of another, the principal, to create, alter, or extinguish legal relations with third parties. Agency law forms the connective tissue between individual will and institutional action, defining the limits of consent, authority, and accountability.

    This course explores how agency arises by agreement, implication, or operation of law; how authority is expressed and interpreted; and how liability is allocated among principals, agents, and third parties in contractual and tortious contexts. Students will examine both fiduciary duties and the commercial implications of representation across employment, corporate, and trust relationships.

    🎓 Learning Outcomes

    By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

    1. Define and identify agency relationships, distinguishing them from employment, bailment, and independent contracting.
    2. Explain the creation and scope of authority, including express, implied, apparent, and ratified authority.
    3. Analyze fiduciary duties of agents, including loyalty, disclosure, and obedience to lawful instructions.
    4. Evaluate principal liability for acts of the agent, including through ratification and estoppel.
    5. Apply doctrines of notice and imputation to determine when knowledge is legally attributed to the principal.
    6. Discuss termination of agency, by act of the parties, expiration, or operation of law, and its effect on third-party rights.

    🧩 Topics Covered

    • Nature and formation of the agency relationship
    • Scope and types of authority
    • Duties and obligations of agent and principal
    • Liability of principal and agent to third parties
    • Notice, ratification, and estoppel in agency
    • Termination and revocation of authority
    • Agency in corporations, trusts, and commercial dealings

    📚 Format & Materials

    • Supplement: Case readings and interpretive commentary from Basilikos Nomos Institute
    • Delivery: Lecture and analytical workshop format
    • Duration: 24 classes | Self-paced study
  • Law of Contracts

    Law of Contracts

    $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:

    1. Define and explain the elements of a valid contract, including offer, acceptance, consideration, and mutual assent.
    2. Distinguish between types of contracts, such as express, implied, unilateral, bilateral, and quasi-contractual obligations.
    3. Apply rules of interpretation, including the parol evidence rule, intent of parties, and construction against the drafter.
    4. Evaluate issues of validity, such as capacity, legality, mistake, duress, fraud, and unconscionability.
    5. Analyze remedies for breach, including damages, restitution, rescission, and specific performance.
    6. 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
  • Law of Payments

    Law of Payments

    $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:

    1. Define “payment” in law and distinguish it from tender, accord and satisfaction, and performance.
    2. Identify the essential elements of lawful payment, including voluntary intent, lawful currency or medium, and acceptance by the creditor.
    3. Apply common-law and statutory rules that determine when a debt is extinguished or merely suspended.
    4. Analyze payment through instruments — such as checks, promissory notes, and electronic transfers — under UCC Articles 3 and 4.
    5. Evaluate the rights and duties of parties, including payment by third persons, payment under mistake, and recovery of overpayment.
    6. 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

     

  • Law of Trusts Webinars

    Law of Trusts Webinars

    $1,500.00

    If you want to Purchaces the law of Trusts webinars and not be a Sentry Member you can now Purchase it.

  • Proper Endorsement Class

    Proper Endorsement Class

    $300.00

    How to properly endorse your instruments is important in learning how to do things correctly. This class will show you the correct way to do the endorsement. What to do when you can not get the proper signatures, and will even lay out the template for the endorsement. This class is a separate class not part of the workshop.

  • The Common Law

    The Common Law

    $125.00
  • The Law of Names

    The Law of Names

    $125.00

    The Law of Names class will teach you the who, what, when, where, and how names work. This class is available for purchase or as part of the Sentry Member group. If you purchase the class you will have permanent access. If you chose the membership you will have access to it while you are a member.

  • Ultimate Trust Package (With Forms)

    Ultimate Trust Package (With Forms)

    $6,000.00

    If you do not want to be a Sentry Member you can now get this package. This Package contains all of the following Webinars; Law of Agency Law of Contracts Law of Trusts It includes approximatly 400 hours of webinars to teach the foundations of everything you need to know to create a trust, and…

  • Ultimate Trust Webinar Package (Without Forms)

    Ultimate Trust Webinar Package (Without Forms)

    $3,500.00

    This Package contains all of the following Webinars; Law of Agency Law of Contracts Law of Trusts It includes approximatly 400 hours of webinars to teach the foundations of everything you need to know to create a trust, and all the principles that you need to know to mange a trust. This does not contain…

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