Questions tagged [contra-proferentum]
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Does the doctrine of contra proferentum apply to court filings as well as contractual terms?
Where there are ambiguous or contradicting terms appearing throughout the text of a contract, it is customary to interpret it in a way that is most contrary to the interests of the party who has prepared and proffered the draft of the contract.
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Is a party to a contract who writes it using an LLM considered the author?
Bob is selling a vehicle to Alice. He asks ChatGPT to write a contract, and it does, for some reason, write it. (It has filters in place to prevent users from writing legal documents, but these filters might be possible to bypass.) They both skim…
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Do statements made under oath filed with a court give rise to a condition of estoppel?
Bob brings a claim in court and makes a statement in one of his filings which was, for whatever reason, inaccurate/wrong. He then makes statements in a subsequent filing that contradict these. Does his first filing’s statements estop him from making…
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