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IANAL, but I understood Meeting Of Minds to refer to the need for both parties to a contract to actually agree that a contract exists. From the wiki page you r
by tomalpha 5y ago
IANAL, but I understood Meeting Of Minds to refer to the need for both parties to a contract to actually agree that a contract exists.
From the wiki page you reference for example:
> The reasoning is that a party should not be held to a contract that they were not even aware existed.
And later on, something directly relevant to this discussion perhaps:
> Mutual assent is vitiated by actions such as fraud, undue influence, duress, mutual mistake, or misrepresentation.
I think that this discussion is more closely related to the legal concept of a Mistake [0], which absolutely can be something that a court might address. Though even that doesn't seem like quite a perfect fit here.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistake_(contract_law)#Mutual_mistake https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistake_(contract_law)#Mutua...
- JackFr 5y agoIANAL either but my understanding was that the "meeting of the minds", is not just that a mutual understanding that contract exists but there is an agreement on basis of the contract. In so far as it relates to Eth, my point was that the meeting of the minds only goes as far as "the code is the contract", and the use case is to eliminate the civil courts combing over intent and who knew what.