Discussion - Chapter 13 - Third-Party Contracts - Assignment, Delegation & Third-Party Beneficiaries

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Consider the legal treatment of assignment/delegation of contract and third-party beneficiary rights and respond to the following questions:

1) What rights, if any, under a contract are left to an assignor when he has assigned his contractual rights to an assignee?

2) What obligations or liabilities under a contract are left to a delegor when he has delegated his contractual obligations to a delegee?

3) If any obligation or liability is left to a delegor under a contract once he has delegated his contractual obligations to a delegee, what, if anything, could the delegor do or have done to relieve himself of same?

4) Why does the law not permit incidental third-party beneficiaries from enforcing rights under a contract while allowing intended or express third-party beneficiaries to enforce same?

5) Why is it beneficial to business to be able to assign and delegate contractual rights and responsibilities?

Each student must make a thoughtful and reasoned initial post that is approximately 300 words long (for reference, this prompt is shorter than that). Then each student must make at least two thoughtful and reasoned posts in response to the posts of other students. The point is to generate a robust discussion. Posts will not be graded separately but will be considered as part of the participation component of overall course grade.