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Contracting in a Digital Environment.
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Contracting in a Digital Environment Making a contract may involve formalities; such as, it may be required to be in writing or have some other formal requirement such as the attachment of physical signature or attestation by witnesses to be effective. Can a digital contract fulfill the necessary formal requirements of such contract? In attempting to make a contact by e-mail or on the web, an individual's communication may be met by the purely programmed response of a computer, without any human knowledge or intervention. Is it possible for contact to be formed in such circumstances? . It is surely correct to say that the elimination of the need for filing cabinets holding masses of paper is one of the long term goals of the current information technology age. The field of E-commerce offers us a working example of how this goal is being achieved on a daily basis. It is recognised and...
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