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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 715
Contracts - Unenforceable If It Was Not Entered into Fairly or Without Knowing and Understanding the Terms and Conditions (Procedural Unconscionability)
A contract may not be enforced if (1) one party did not have the opportunity to know all
of the terms and conditions of the contract; (2) one party did not enter into the contract
voluntarily; (3) the contract had very small and unreadable print; (4) the contract had legal
language which was hard to understand; (5) the two or more parties did not have the same
bargaining power or knowledge about forming contracts; and/or (6) one party did not have a
chance to study the contract and ask questions about its conditions and terms. To decide if a
contract cannot be enforced because of one of these reasons, you must look to the circumstances
of when the parties entered into the contract.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 715 (current as of February 17, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
- Content hash
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