Unconscionable Contract


A contract with terms that are excessively unreasonable, overreaching and one-sided.

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Hall v. Fruehauf, Corp., 346 S.E.2d 582, 583 (1986).

An unconscionable contract is such an agreement as no sane man not acting under a delusion would make and that no honest man would take advantage of.

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Gillman v. Chase Manhattan Bank, 73 N.Y.2d 1, 10.

An unconscionable contract is one which is so grossly unreasonable or unconscionable in the light of the mores and business practices of the time and place as to be unenforceable according to its literal terms.

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