BU231 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: E-Commerce, Snowplow, Consumer Protection
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Not a legal obligation forced upon you you choose to be in a contract and then you become legally obligated: you choose to be legally obligated not forced like tort. Inequality in power unfair contracts contract laws help manage situations. Offer: description of promises or a set a promises that the offeror makes to the offeree: offeror party proposing the contract, offeree party that is being offered the contract. When offeree accepts promise turned into a contract. Form doesn"t matter must be heard and understood. People who do work without request cannot be rewarded because no contract to do work. Can"t really bargain with standard form contracts because these contracts accept or reject. Power at times corrupt contracts and makes them unequal: business is government regulated government must approve contract, public/consumers offered special protection, public gets protection from courts. Offeree cannot change terms of standard form contract. 3 ways of getting protection from inequality:
