'Time Bomb'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
So I'm watching a movie to go unnamed in case I spoil anyone for a clumsy comedy from 2003 that has weird parallels to a current Oscar nominee.
Can you nullify a contract by physically tearing it up? I mean, doesn't that make it ridiculously easy for one party to renege?
Can you nullify a contract by physically tearing it up?
If it's the only copy?
Though everybody scans legal documents to PDF nowadays so that's a tougher trick to pull.
If it's the only copy?
For reals? Tearing it in two nullifies it? That seems like a really simple out, if whatever you were intending to get from it is acted upon ASAP.
I don't know if destroying the only copy of a contract makes it null, I think it just makes the agreement undocumented and unenforceable.
Tearing it in two counts as destroying?
Oh, if you just tear it in two you're probably still screwed. As long as it can be reconstructed.
I suppose if the contract has the condition that either party can withdraw from the agreement one of the parties ripping up the contract would be a dramatic means of withdrawl.
OK, not a lawyer. But destroying the physical copy of a contract (as far as I understand) had no force in law. But if it is the only copy that certainly makes agreement to its terms harder to prove. So depending on circumstances, you could nullify a contract by tearing up the sole copy in the sense that it would become impossible to prove. But even before pdfs, there was carbon paper, and just about every contract had multiple copies. And before carbon paper, I suspect clerks simply typed up (or hand wrote!) multiple copies. I suspect that as long as we have had contracts, there have been means of protection against one party later denying agreeing to the contract. Where multiple copies were not practical I suspect public oaths before either large numbers of witnesses or small numbers widely respected witnesses who could not be easily murdered served the same purposes.
Mmm. I like chicken livers with hot sauce quite a bit, but I don't really like beef liver. I can eat pate until it starts oozing out my eyes, though. YUM.
At least my mom never had delusions of grandeur, claimed to be in the X-Men, and then tried to make out with me. It's like a modern Oedipus!
I just did some picture rearranging, and I really need a picture of myself with both parents. They gave me a two-picture frame with a picture of the two of them in one slot, and there's literally nothing else I could put in the other half without sending some kind of message. Relatives on just one side? No. Friends? No. I almost pulled a picture for it that's me and one friend -- because it was the right size and orientation -- but no, that looks like we're a couple. Oy.