Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary, by Roderick Ramage
Minors’ contracts
A person under age 18 is a minor: Family Law Reform Act 1969 ss 1, 9. Contracts with minors will be one of the following:
- Valid: contracts for necessaries and for education and training.
- Void at common law: other contracts including trade.
- Voidable by the minor: continuing contracts, eg tenancy or partnership agreements, avoided before or within a reasonable time of reaching full age.
- Enforceable but not against the minor: on reaching full age a minor may sue but not be sued on a contract made while a minor, even if there is new consideration or ratification.
Wet ink signatures
A signature page subsequently attached to documents, is not a valid execution of a document for the purposes of s1(3) of the Law of Property Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989: R (on the application of Mercury Tax Group) v HM Revenue and Customs Comrs (2008). If the whole document is sent by e-mail with a separate signature page, only that page is printed, but a copy of it as signed
