[11843] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Adhesion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (DAN L. BURK)
Thu Apr 21 21:24:57 1994
Date: 21 Apr 94 15:43:00 EST
From: "DAN L. BURK" <DBURK@gmuvax.gmu.edu>
To: "com-priv" <com-priv@psi.com>
Bruce Gingery writes:
> What's an "adhesion" other than a glueing operation, or a
A contract of adhesion is a boilerplate contract -- one of those "fine print
forms" that you find on the back of your parking stub, rental agreement, etc.
Courts in many jurisdictions refuse to enforce such contracts because:
1) They know that nobody reads them;
2) One party is trying to dictate all the terms;
3) Generic terms are probably not suited to the particular situation;
4) There is no indictation that there was a "meeting of minds"
on the terms;
5) All of the above.
Dan L. Burk
dburk@gmuvax.gmu.edu
