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I believe the idea is nobody would willingly sign a contract that does nothing to benefit themselves so they must have been mislead into the agreement thus it i
by cmdrfred 9y ago
I believe the idea is nobody would willingly sign a contract that does nothing to benefit themselves so they must have been mislead into the agreement thus it is invalid. Sort of a rational actor theory of law.
- idbehold 9y agoIsn't the benefit for William that he was provided some confidential information in addition to what he already knew?
- lisper 9y agoPossibly. But the contract doesn't say so. This is exactly why the consideration has to be explicit, so the judge adjudicating disputes doesn't have to guess about such things.
- jdmichal 9y agoTypically yes, access to the information is the proper consideration for agreeing not to further disclose the information. But as lisper says [0], that will also typically be spelled out in the contract. If a contract doesn't outline consideration, and the jurisdiction requires consideration, then the lawyer writing the contract was not very good at their job... [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14167805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14167805
- fulldecent 9y agoBasically, per our phone call, my consideration was duress. As in "sign this or else..."