Quote Originally Posted by CDNSushi View Post
As part of my MBA, I took a very educational "business law" course that clarified such phenomena quite well.

In order for any contract to be considered valid, several elements MUST be in place, two of which are: an OFFER, and ACCEPTANCE of that offer. (There are other elements, such as: consideration, free consent, capacity to contract, enforceability, etc, but those would only obfuscate the issue here).

If you were to cross out the section that didn't appeal to you, sign and submit the completed contract, that would constitute a COUNTER-OFFER -- not acceptance. In order to be legal and enforceable, you would still need to have evidence that your counter-offer had been accepted first.

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I don't know anything about business law, I'm stupid, but I think you are right on the money, CDNSushi. All sides in a contract would most likely have to sign each change in the contract; I think these types of contracts are usually written on the back of envelopes... Otherwise all kinds of changes could be made after the contract was signed.

Never sign the bottom of a sheet of blank paper.


Grew up in a small business family, and have seen hand written contracts and such, though.