Elements of a Contract

Elements of a Contract

Suppose that the Fabulous Hotel hires you as head chef under a two-year employment contract. After two years, another hotel wants to hire you. However, in the original employment contract you signed with the Fabulous Hotel, the following paragraph appears:

“The below-signed agrees not to work as a chef for another hotel in the same metropolitan area for a period of two years after leaving our employ.”

1. Describe and analyze the five elements of a contract that must exist for this agreement to be enforceable.
2. Explain why this contract is governed by common law or the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).
3. Examine at least two circumstances in which this non-compete agreement would be unenforceable.

Submit a four page paper (not including title and reference pages). Your paper must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide and must cite three scholarly sources in addition to the textbook.

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A contract is an agreement that legally binds two or more people. The contract can be done through writing or just orally. Any party to the contract that fails to execute a contract is subject to judicial proceedings in order to pay for the other party or parties to the contract. However, for this to take place there must be sufficient evidence that indeed there was a contract that existed among the parties to the case (

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