I stated explicitly, twice, that I think consumer protection is a good thing. I don't know how many more precautions you want me to take. > not something one e

I stated explicitly, twice, that I think consumer protection is a good thing. I don't know how many more precautions you want me to take. > not something one explicitly signs off on every time they buy a good or service. Yes they do. Really, ask a lawyer. > Few people ever read such laws in anything other than summarized form. They don't need to, because they generally match consumers expectations in a given culture. Merchants and those engaging in B2B trade should however read them. > In that case, it's a background framework for every transaction, and shouldn't require supplementary pages of legalese on every service purchase. Exactly. You seem to have this image of contracts as being reams of paper wheeled around by paralegals. They are not just that. There are such things as oral and implied contracts and they are just as binding as written ones (but might be harder to enforce). > You've merely redefined contract away from its accepted common usage into a legal nightmare that would drag commerce to a screeching halt I don't know anyone for whom the accepted common usage of the word contract isn't also the legal one. And in the legal definition of the word contract, even buying a soda in a vending machine is entering into a contract. Never the less, commerce seems to be doing OK.