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Originally Posted by mbyron
I'm glad nothing bad happened, but I hope you realize that this little disclaimer was a waste of breath and wouldn't last 10 seconds in court, had something untoward occurred.
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Actually having a verbal agreement with the youths guardian and a witness is acceptable in court. As long as you can prove you did your due diligence to get all the facts and warn against it. It is just much harder to enforce or defend than the written word.
Reasonable Persons test - Defined as conduct that is better than average but less than perfect.
Straight from my lawyers mouth to the thread. (Canadian law here but very similar if not the same as US Law)
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Last edited by SmokeEater; Wed Dec 16, 2009 at 12:50pm.
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