You need to know: What Makes a Contract Legally Binding?
you need to know:? What Makes a Contract Legally Binding
DISCLAIMER: The following is proposed for your reference only and is not intended as legal advice. Contact your attorney before completing any agreement.
Legal contract is a promise or set of promises that are enforceable by law. In North America, the three most important aspects of the contract offer, acceptance and consideration.
“Shares” and “support” seems pretty easy (although it is more difficult than you think), but the term “consideration” fools many people.
“Consideration” is not compulsory in many countries for a common law system (United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and many others). A contract was considered to be the value of both sides – or to promise or undertake. If you promise to buy my son a boat for their studies, and I did not do so, my promise is not enforced, because my son gave me nothing in return (this is called a “gratuitous promise”). On the other hand, if I promise to give him a boat, if he mows my lawn, then I refuse to move the boat, even after he mows my lawn, it could be enforced even if the vessel’s value far exceeds the value of the cut work. Courts are not concerned with the value of the consideration, whether it was wise to change, but only whether to consider the total available.
There are several ways to declare the contract null and void (treated as if it never existed at all) or invalid – among other things, the lack of legislative intent, lack of legal capacity (minor, for example), the lack of genuine consent (in the case of fraud, etc.) and illegal object (for a contract hit man, for example).
Note that all of these things are greatly simplified – in contract law can get quite complicated. Stay tuned for Parts 2,3,4 …
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