Legally, a verbal agreement is a contract. And, legally speaking, it has the full force of any written agreement.
Of course, proving a verbal agreement is another story. H. -----Original Message----- From: Paris Lundis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [mailto:Paris Lundis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 7:41 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: A legal question verbal agreements are no sure bet in any dispute... highly recommend you get written agreements. Even when both parties have written agreements suits are less than ideal and interpretation lends itself to everything... Each state has separate laws regarding admissibility and validity of such. The written word is much more powerful. -p -----Original Message----- From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 09:03 To: CF-Community Subject: Re: A legal question In Kentucky a Verbal agreement is almost as strong as a written one. It doesn't have to be spoken in legal terms for it to work. And here they do hold up. If there is at least one other witness, then it is as good as written. At 05:22 PM 1/4/2002 +1100, you wrote: >perhaps, but how do you qualify a verbal agreement. Most verbal agreements >do not stand up in court because it's one persons word against another... In >that instance the employer would have to say 'and we agree that you will not >divulge any information you see/hear etc while working here' and the >employee would have to say 'I agree'.... To use Jeffry's example, the CEO >can't just say 'I will enforce the NDA' if there wasn't one. that isn't a >verbal agreement even if his 'agreed' that the CEO would enforce it... >that's just agreeing that he will enforce it.... not that Jeffry wouldnt >devolve secrets.... In my oppinion you would have to be a nut to chase a >court case if you didn't get them to sign an NDA... it would make you look >pretty stupid on the witness stand. > >I think that is too loose goose... it's got nothing on a written contract >with witnesses. ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
