IANAL, but from what I see, in this case there is a contract, if the two of you started doing business. It might, or might not, be the one you handed that wasn'

IANAL, but from what I see, in this case there is a contract, if the two of you started doing business. It might, or might not, be the one you handed that wasn't throw back in your face. if they filed it, still have it, refer to it in deciding how much to pay you, what work you need to be doing for them, etc - those are all very good signs that's the one. or it might be oral, implied, etc. The court would probably recognise all the terms that weren't in dispute (i.e. the ones you didn't black out). These things vary with the court, the judge, the jurisdiction... what is certain (which you said) is that you can't be sued for the term you blacked out; there's little conceivable way you can be held to have agreed to that. what is said above about arbitration clauses seems to me to be wonderful advice. Because the above just isn't the case in front of an arbitrator. They might well decide that the fair decision is that even though you blacked out the line, you are still in the wrong - for misleading the company, breaching a very similar implied term, or else. Cut it out.