Partly for this reason, there are doctrines that allow courts to invalidate contracts, or portions of contracts, in the interest of basic fairness.
Mr. Levy said earlier yesterday that if a formal nondiscrimination policy could not be obtained from scout leaders, the Board of Education could invalidate contracts that let the Boy Scouts use public school buildings for meetings and recruiting.
The Pennsylvania official was simply an immigration-policy freelancer (although I wonder what would happen today under Alabama's anti-immigrant law that was upheld in substantial part by a federal district judge last week; one of its provisions invalidates contracts to which one party is an undocumented immigrant, and marriage is, after all, a contract).
Moreover, the Contract Act of 1872 invalidates contracts whose signatories are younger than 18.
The same public policy should invalidate any contract of insurance against the civil punishment that punitive damages represent.
The fact that a consumer does not read the agreement or thereafter claims to have failed to understand or appreciate some term therein does not invalidate the contract.
For instance, when the law of one state would invalidate the contract, but the law of another would uphold it, the Restatement (Second) favors applying the law of the state which would uphold the validity of the contract.
In that same vein, failure to satisfy a promise regarding the quality or type of good would also invalidate a contract as failing to meet its warranty, though the warranty was required to be expressly communicated.
Personally, he believed that if he spent time in a mental institution, he could obtain "crazy papers," as he called them, documents that would invalidate a contract a Mafia promoter had induced him to sign.
DD never signed the thing, which is the primary argument Clifford is using to try to invalidate the contract.
Ribéry argued that he had not been paid his wages by the club and asked FIFA, the sport's governing body, to invalidate his contract.
