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Unconscionability

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Origin Developed through common law and equity, and codified in the United States in Uniform Commercial Code section 2-302.

Unconscionability is a doctrine of contract law under which a court may refuse to enforce a contract or a specific term because it is so extremely unjust, or so overwhelmingly one-sided in favor of the party with superior bargaining power, that enforcing it would offend good conscience. Courts generally assess both procedural unconscionability, unfairness in how the contract was negotiated, such as unequal bargaining power or hidden terms, and substantive unconscionability, unfairness in the actual terms themselves, asking whether the disadvantaged party had a genuine opportunity to understand and evaluate the bargain before agreeing to it.

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Developed through common law and equity, and codified in the United States in Uniform Commercial Code section 2-302. 1
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A court will not enforce contract terms that are so extremely unjust or overwhelmingly one-sided in favor of the party with superior bargaining power that they are contrary to good conscience. 1
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1. Unconscionability (Wikipedia)
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Terms that are so extremely unjust, or overwhelmingly one-sided in favor of the party who has the superior bargaining power, that they are contrary to good conscience.
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