
Is a Contract Enforceable When One Party Claims to Have Misunderstood It?
It sometimes happens that a party to a contract discovers that he has agreed to something that is not is his personal or financial best interests. He might try to claim that he didn’t read or didn’t understand the contract so the contract isn’t enforceable against him. This article is an examination of Alabama caselaw on the question of whether a contract is binding and enforceable when a party claims to have misunderstood it. Can you be bound to a contract you didn’t understand? Let’s start with the basic principle of why we put contracts in writing in the first...