1.Check your own state statutes for the age of consent and contracts that are deemed to be malum in seandmalum prohibitum.

2.Why can a person receive some remedy even if the contract is malum prohibitum?

3.What factors would determine a person's lack of mental capacity?

4.Are there circumstances in which a person's physical, not mental, state can cause her to lack contractual capacity? Why?

5. Dr. Doe firmly believes in the terminally ill's right to die. He has contracts to assist Richard Roe, an 80-year-old man dying ofcancer, in committing suicide. The fee agreed on is $1,000. After Mr. Roe's death, Dr. Doe requests the fee from the Roe estate, which refuses to pay him. Argue for and against the legality of the contract.