contract-law
Is it common for contracts to be voided on the grounds that they are unreadable?
<p>Not illegible- as far as I know, no one's signed the Voynich manuscript and been held to it- but simply incoherent, needlessly verbose, or prohibitively lengthy?</p>

<p>I recognize that legal language uses a lot of terms of art, and that it's necessarily going to be a bit abstruse, but it seems like most terms of use are entries in some sick competition to see who can ensure as few people as possible actually read the thing.</p>

<p>No, the length, verbosity, or number of terms of art don't affect the validity of a document as evidence of a contract.</p>

<p>However, in-artful drafting can lead to ambiguity. Complexity for its own sake can backfire.</p>
