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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 716
Contracts - Both Parties Must Agree to Be Bound by the Contract
If both parties to a contract have not acted in a way that shows that they both agreed to be
bound by the contract, then the contract cannot be enforced. To decide if the parties have both
acted in a way that shows that they agreed to be bound by the contract, you should look at how
the parties have acted or what they have said about the contract. If you find that it is more likely
true than not true that [name of plaintiff] and [name of defendant] have acted in a way that shows
that they both agreed to be bound by the contract to __________________________ [describe
the subject matter of the contract], then the contract can be enforced. However, if you find that it
is more likely true than not true that [name of plaintiff] and [name of defendant] have not acted
in a way that shows that they both agreed to be bound by the contract to
__________________________ [describe the subject matter of the contract], then the contract
cannot be enforced.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 716 (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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