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disclaimer

milemile
edited July 2008 in Chit chat
i'm on about the ones you sign for daft things. i've heard people saying you have to sign them in restaurants for eating such things as steak tatar, and very hot curry. also there was ones gimmicky ones for scary movies. are they legal?

i mean if i make you sign a disclaimer before you enter my house saying, that if you die it isn't my fault, then beat you to death, will i get away with it?
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  • guesserguesser
    edited July 2008
    mile wrote: »
    i'm on about the ones you sign for daft things. i've heard people saying you have to sign them in restaurants for eating such things as steak tatar, and very hot curry. also there was ones gimmicky ones for scary movies. are they legal?

    i mean if i make you sign a disclaimer before you enter my house saying, that if you die it isn't my fault, then beat you to death, will i get away with it?

    if you get it drawn up by some very good lawyers, and have plenty of money to throw at the court case... you might :)

    then again, the person would be committing suicide if they accepted all responsibility, then you would be guilty of assisting them :p
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  • beanzbeanz
    edited July 2008
    mile wrote: »
    i'm on about the ones you sign for daft things. i've heard people saying you have to sign them in restaurants for eating such things as steak tatar, and very hot curry. also there was ones gimmicky ones for scary movies. are they legal?

    i mean if i make you sign a disclaimer before you enter my house saying, that if you die it isn't my fault, then beat you to death, will i get away with it?

    Disclaimers are only valid within the limits of the law, if what you are offering up is against the laws of the land...in your case killing your visitor then its worthless as far as protecting you from prosecution.....however it might hold up if the family sued you for wrongful death.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited July 2008
    beanz wrote: »
    Disclaimers are only valid within the limits of the law, if what you are offering up is against the laws of the land...in your case killing your visitor then its worthless as far as protecting you from prosecution.....however it might hold up if the family sued you for wrongful death.

    Don't encourage him, you'll be setting up the Yorkshire Ripper II ;)
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  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited July 2008
    Disclaimer: If you read this disclaimer you will have to give ZnorXman all your Speccy possessions.
  • milemile
    edited July 2008
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    Disclaimer: If you read this disclaimer you will have to give ZnorXman all your Speccy possessions.

    disclaimer: no
  • gasmangasman
    edited July 2008
    What beanz said. All you can do in a disclaimer/contract is require the other party to do something, or to not do something (e.g. not file a lawsuit) - it doesn't trump your legal obligation not to kill people. Even if you could say "you agree not to prosecute me for murder" (which you probably couldn't anyway), murder prosecutions are generally not initiated by the victim...

    Also, in U.S. law at least (yep, sorry, everything I know about the world's legal systems I learned by reading Groklaw) there's a concept of an 'unconscionable contract' which I think would kick in here: essentially a contract can be deemed unenforceable if it contains terms that are so unfair to one of the parties that they couldn't possibly have known what they were signing up to.
  • Jumping StackJumping Stack
    edited July 2008
    mile wrote: »
    disclaimer: no

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  • ghbearmanghbearman
    edited July 2008
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    Disclaimer: If you read this disclaimer you will have to give ZnorXman all your Speccy possessions.

    wow, you really want all my copies of Make a chip and Horace goes Skiing? :o
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited July 2008
    ghbearman wrote: »
    wow, you really want all my copies of Make a chip and Horace goes Skiing? :o

    Yes. I have plans ...
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