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One theory Luxe might be successful in a breach of contract against Betsy is for material breach. When Betsy sign the contract, she was aware that the contract had a print about all sales being finally if approved by Luxe and was approved. She entered the contract and was approved and her duty is to pay. Even though I think Betsy can have Voluntary consent because there was a fraudulent misrepresentation of a material fact of the boat. Sam said it was a state of the art boat and wasn’t true. There was no meeting of the minds their because Betsy thought differ about what she was being sold. Also, it can be a form of duress because Betsy was told the price will go up which was a lie and made her sign the contract because the price changed.

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