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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 717
Contracts - Not Reading a Contract Cannot Be Used as a Defense
A contract can be enforced even if one party signed the contract but did not read the
contract, did not have someone read the contract to [him/her] or own its behalf, or thought that
the contract contained different conditions or terms than those actually in the contract. However,
if the other party acted in a way as to make the complaining party not read the contract or have it
read to [him/her], then the contract may not be enforced.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 717 (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
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