Quotes about Contract Validity

Manu

A contract made by a person intoxicated, or insane, or grievously disordered by disease and so forth, or wholly dependent, by an infant or very aged man, or by an unauthorized party is invalid

Manava Dharma Shastra. This is the law to this day in almost every developed country. This text is a part of the Hindu Holy Texts. Hindus believe that Manu was a prophet whose text is revealed or inspired.

Edward Coke

The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

A marriage, valid by the law of the place where it was contracted, and not in fraud of the law of any other place, is valid everywhere; and that no technical domicile at the place of the contract is necessary to make it so

Lysander Spooner

A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation.

Zephyr Teachout

In the absence of relative equality - quid pro quo - a court might question whether there was an actual contract. If I give you a dollar, and you give me a mansion, our contract would lack quid pro quo.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Pacta illegalia non sevanda sunt. Illegal agreements are not to be enforced.

The senator proposed this variation to the ancient Roman maxim in connection with the transfer of Lithuania from Nazi Germany to Stalinist Russia.

James Wilson

The agreement of the parties, the essence of every rational contract, is indispensably required.

Refers to the marriage contract. Even in the sexist culture of early America, it was contrary to public policy to force or intimidate women into marrying men they would have preferred not to. None the less, even in modern times there are still a few religious sects which do not follow this fundamental principle of law and freedom.

Mexico

All contracts, not in opposition to the laws of the State, that have been entered into in foreign countries, between emigrants who come to settle in this State, or between the inhabitants thereof, and the servants and day laborers or workingmen whom they introduce, are hereby guaranteed to be valid in said State

This ordinance opened the door somewhat to slavery again as Austin said it would “permit families to bring the necessary and indispensable house servants and laborers.” Earlier Mexican laws had abolished slavery in most of Mexico but left the door open in Texas. See {613642} and {613644}.

Robert J. Ringer

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

Contract Validity Quotes