Different Comic Styles for Different Contracts?
What types of contracts require a Bil Keane or Charles Schulz approach? Your agreements for your child's preschool or piano lessons?
I don't think Al Capp or Walt Kelly would have written iron-clad loan agreements! Li'l Abner from Dogpatch, USA and Pogo Possum from the Okefenokee Swamp were not known for careful and correct use of the English language.
I only want the Little Pig who built his house of brick for my Construction Contracts. The Little Pig with the straw and stick houses won't be in my architect contracts.
Different Characters for Different Agreements?
Clearly, new cartoons and new characters will be needed.
- Lender Lion chases Borrower Bunny's carrot collateral down a burrow?
- Lizard Landlord and Turtle Tenant (habitually slow with the rent!)?
- For promissory notes we need to have caricatures of Maker Woman and Holder Man.
- Sally Seller's artfully drawn limited warranty to Barry Buyer could become a collectible.
While I have encountered some comically drafted contracts, I am pretty sure the scriveners did not mean for them to be funny. I can't even imagine what new rules of contract interpretation will be needed by the courts. I guess contracts will still be construed against the parties that drew them up.
Multi-Million Dollar Commercial Loans Documented by Comics?
If Comic Contracts are the future, other technologies must be employed. The multi-million dollar international secured transaction will require Disney animators, at a minimum! Imagine, Snow White and the Seven Bankers!
When I started drafting contracts using 8 ½ by 14 inch pages and carbon paper, I couldn't have imagined the electronic contracts of today. Maybe illustrated contracts are the next best thing to electronic signatures. I think, however, that Comic Contracts will create more problems than they solve.
|