Well I’m sorry that you don’t understand case law, but that’s exactly how it works in situations like this.
Who’s gonna dispute that a contract is a contract?
Nobody now, because that’s a precedent that’s already been set. In a court.
Something that has not happened for the situation we’re talking about.
Edit: to be clear, it’s not necessarily true that nobody would dispute that actually. There are likely numerous cases regarding identifying the validity of a contract on the books, which is how we know exactly what one is.
If someone were to come up with an interesting enough situation that warrants a new case, then that outcome would be added to the list of cases that define what a contract is (do a Google search, there are already a whole bunch like that).
Well I’m sorry that you don’t understand case law, but that’s exactly how it works in situations like this.
Nobody now, because that’s a precedent that’s already been set. In a court.
Something that has not happened for the situation we’re talking about.
Edit: to be clear, it’s not necessarily true that nobody would dispute that actually. There are likely numerous cases regarding identifying the validity of a contract on the books, which is how we know exactly what one is.
If someone were to come up with an interesting enough situation that warrants a new case, then that outcome would be added to the list of cases that define what a contract is (do a Google search, there are already a whole bunch like that).
That’s literally how the court system works.