Quote:This isn't so much an issue with the website as it is with private entities, but say for example that someone agrees to a "Contract" with a private entity to sell them into slavery.

 

Now as you all know, Slavery in America is banned under the 13th Amendment, but since the person in general signed an agreement to be sold into slavery, despite slavery itself being defined as a grave offense on Human rights, would it be legal?

 

This is all purely hypothetical, but it's worth asking.

 

Illegality is an absolute defense to non-performance.  Since, in the eyes of the law, the contract is not legal to begin with, there is no obligation. You can can sign any kind of contract, but the enforcement of the contract will never be upheld unless the obligation is recognized in the court of law as legal activity.

 

Disclaimer:  My wife the lawyer told me this.

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