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| 28 May 11, 5:16 PM Sirebel UK, 5 yrs      |
It all depends what you want the contract to stipulate and the court to enforce. Take a look at contracts for personal employment (the type used for temporary contract work) they aren't a million miles away. They define roles and responsibilities, liabilities and rewards. Not sure you'd every get a court to up hold one that you'd want but you might fool a few gullible young submissives along the way. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. Abraham Lincoln | |
| 28 May 11, 5:18 PM issheworthit UK(NG), 2 yrs |
As others have said, the fact that the question is even posed is laughable, however to give a balanced answer from someone qualified, Contract Law in England and Wales is based on the principles of what is fair and what is reasonable. You may find that many a judge will support you when you suggest that your slave is in breach of contract for not wishing to have their genitals stapled to a board, however when they apply the 'to be done and to be seen to be done' caveat, I'm guessing you will be left with two hefty legal bills and lots of column inches in the Daily Malice! Think I'm wrong, please consult a Head Doctor, quickly! | |
| 28 May 11, 5:27 PM FreeKinker UK(PE), 10 yrs |
I'd like to hear why the person asking the question would want a contract that is legally binding? vMaster aka Mike
Web Site: http://www.vmaster.me.uk/ | |
| 28 May 11, 5:44 PM Couple_next_door UK(SY), 22 mths |
Yeah! Sure slavery contacts can be legally binding; just sprinkle with fairy dust and have the contract blessed by your local fairy god mother! No amusing tag line here, move along now! Move along! | |
| 28 May 11, 5:46 PM Mr_Smith_UK  UK(BL), 3 yrs £ |
just get married. | |
| 28 May 11, 6:13 PM mroberts UK(EH), 6 yrs |
Brilliant | |
| 28 May 11, 6:25 PM Long_way_home UK(CF), 19 mths |
No But if you're rich enough, or have some really bored friends, you can set up a pretend court to try you for refusing to wear that pink gimp suit in public. Sorted. | |
| 28 May 11, 6:49 PM valleyrose17 UK(BS), 2 yrs |
you need to use your brain a bit here - slavery is illegal so how can a slavery contract be legally binding?
I'm sorry if my profile pic offends but...TOUGH | |
| 28 May 11, 7:26 PM Aetheling_X UK(LS), 4 yrs |
There's no practical way a contract for slavery would work, because as far as I remember from a course on contract law, you can't actually be *forced* to fulfill the terms of any contract since there's a general presumption against coercion in English law. The most the plaintiff can be awarded is restitution. In any case, an enforceable contract automatically conveys legal rights and responsibilities to both parties, and this fact renders the idea of 'slavery' a nonsense. Quite apart from this - as others have pointed out - slavery itself is illegal. | |
| 28 May 11, 7:26 PM HalloweenWhite UK(TF), 7 yrs    |
I wouldn't have thought so because slavery isn't accepted by society and therefore isn't recognised as a "legitimate" way of life for someone who wanted to be a slave, or to own a slave, so I don't think a slave contract would be accepted in a court of law. Edited to (hopefully) make more sense. Sadder still to watch it die than never to have have known it. Edited 28 May 11, 7:31 PM by HalloweenWhite |
