QUESTION
Does an incorrect date in a contract void the agreement?
Asked on Jun 08th, 2018 on Contracts - Texas
More details to this question:
In said contract, the opener states that the contract was entered into agreement on May 24th; however, both parties signed it on May 23rd. Later in the contract, it states that the "Contract has been made effective as of May 24th..." The party who wrote the contract apparently expected it to take more than a day to be signed, as it was May 23rd when I received it.
1 ANSWER
No, unless the date was somehow material to the contract, for example if you were too young to sign the contract on May 23, but were of age as of May 24, or if the contract gave them 2 weeks to move out and they moved out 2 weeks from May 24, but two weeks and one day from May 23. A mere error in date that has no affect on the performance of the contract doesn't make it invalid.
Answered on Jun 11th, 2018 at 11:28 AM