Magical Powers as a Contractual Service: Legal Assessment of Relevant Contracts and Consequences Under Tort Law

Fortune tellers and card readers are booming. People with supposedly magical abilities offer their services for a fee and promise to solve problems through fortune-telling, card reading, astrology, horoscope preparation, crystal ball gazing, and many other methods. What may be a bit of fun for a small fee at a fair often becomes the last hope for people in difficult life situations, and they are willing to pay for it. This paper will examine the legal classification of such contracts in greater detail. Above all, it will seek to clarify whether, and if so, under what circumstances a claim for payment for a magical service is enforceable, and to what extent this claim is subject to objections based on fundamental defects or nullity.

Pagina's: 72, Paperback, Our Knowledge Publishing