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Autonomy

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  1. Article 1306 permits parties to establish convenient contractual terms subject to which limits?
  2. Can parties invoke contractual autonomy to make a clause valid solely because both agreed, when the clause is expressly…
  3. Does a lawful contract necessarily fail merely because it has no specific nominate label in the Code?
  4. Competent parties choose a lawful service schedule and allocation of duties different from an optional default arrangem…
  5. Two parties sign an agreement for a service expressly prohibited by law and argue that notarization validates it under …
  6. An innominate arrangement lawfully combines storage and a specialized monitoring service. One party claims that because…
  7. A divisible agreement contains independent lawful services and a separate illegal service. The illegal term can be sepa…
  8. Explain contractual autonomy under Article 1306 and why willing consent is necessary but not sufficient to validate eve…
  9. Describe how Article 1307 regulates an innominate contract and relate it to the parties' freedom to create lawful arran…
  10. Explain how Article 1315's consequences of good faith, usage and law qualify an argument that only expressly written wo…
  11. Can contractual freedom validate a waiver of an action for future fraud in performance?
  12. May a court reduce an iniquitous or unconscionable penalty even when there was no performance?