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Under American contract law you can sign away any of your constitutional rights. Be careful what you put your magic squiggles on.
by onetwotree 10y ago
Under American contract law you can sign away any of your constitutional rights. Be careful what you put your magic squiggles on.
- jedberg 10y agoSort of. We can't make a contract to do something that would otherwise be illegal. A very simple example is that I cannot put into a rental lease that I can evict a tenant in 5 days. That would be in conflict with the law that says I must go through a 30 day process. Even if I put it in a contract and you sign it, you can still sue me for not going through the 30 day process.
- onetwotree 10y agoRight, there are laws that govern certain types of contracts. I think the problem there is that a lease is regulated, rather than contracts in general. As a counter example, the contracts that members of sober living houses sign indicate that they can be expelled for relapse without going through a formal eviction process. These contracts are governed by a different federal law (the 1988 amendment to the federal fair housing act, IIRC).
- bdhess 10y agoNot necessarily, if the contract can later be found to be unconscionable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability
- sib 10y agoNot true: for example, you can't sign a contract that makes you a slave.