Learn the law so you can apply it to new facts

Here is the example Nila uses for law:

A grandfather promises to support his granddaughter so she can quit her job. She quits; he changes his mind. She gave nothing in return. Can she still enforce the promise?

Probably yes. She gave nothing in exchange, so there is no consideration and no ordinary contract. But he should have expected her to rely on the promise, she did by quitting, and refusing it would be unjust, so promissory estoppel enforces it, perhaps only for what she lost. These are the facts of Ricketts v. Scothorn (1898).

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