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In reason, a man's legal competency to make binding contracts, in any and every case whatever, depends wholly upon his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts in each particular case.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgIn reason, a man's legal competency to make binding contracts, in any and every case whatever, depends wholly upon his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts in each particular case.
He argues that legal competency for contracts depends on an individual's mental capacity.
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