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Passive Agreement to Contract

by Graham Martin on January 3, 2012 · 0 comments

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Most contracts involve a signature of some sort—you have to sign your name or provide an electronic signature, provide a personal identification number, or click “Accept”. These are all purposeful acts and constitute active agreement to a contract. But it’s also possible to passively agree to a contract, for which you don’t really need to do anything purposeful.

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Are Online Terms and Conditions Enforceable?

June 7, 2011
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It turns out that Fine Print Friday is not just an exercise in contract review. In 2010, a Missouri court decided that online terms and conditions are enforceable just by providing the user opportunity to read terms and conditions online prior to acceptance. When are these agreements enforceable?

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How NOT to Escape a Contract

February 1, 2011
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I just discovered a story from a couple years ago involving eBay, a buyer, an RV and killer bees, and it is a great example of how not to escape a contract.

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Contract Basics: Acceptance

March 8, 2010

Acceptance is the second of the three most basic necessities for forming a contract, the first being the Offer, and the third being Consideration. The Acceptance is generally considered to be much simpler to execute than the Offer, but like Offers there can be pitfalls to Acceptance that will void the Offer or fail to complete the agreement.

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