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A paper contract can easily change as well. Ultimately it just comes down to people telling the truth in court, supported by evidence. You'd be surprised how of
by esquivalience 5y ago
A paper contract can easily change as well. Ultimately it just comes down to people telling the truth in court, supported by evidence. You'd be surprised how often legal disputes come down to this - but people tend to be honest about these things, because fraud is a tough line to cross, and fraud on the court is quite another.
- kragen 5y agoPreventing a web page from changing requires continuous significant effort. Changing a paper contract requires significant effort, unless you just, you know, lose it, or drop it in the gutter, or something.
- esquivalience 5y agoJust print the web page and you have equivalent reassurance.
- kragen 5y agoYes, if what the parties are looking at to sign is the printed web page. But we're commenting on an article about signing contracts via email. If they each print the web page separately, they may print out different versions of it. A more effective measure would be to send the contract in the email in some kind of self-contained format such as PDF or plain text.