Contracts
I have a very old book on commercial law, by J.A. Lyons, copyright 1894 and
again in 1901, and it says: Essentials of a contract-
Competent parties.
An agreement or assent.*
Consideration.
Legal subject matter.
The question is about the agreement (or assent)
They sent a billing, they say, on a valid contract. They were the one that sent the bill, which is a voluntary action on their part. They can't later say they didn't want to do business with You, they sent the invitation, of payment. We are, at this stage, rendering honor to their word that there is a valid, "legal" contract. And there is lawful money to make the payment with, as there would be in the Republic. We agree to accept their billing in full, thereby "purchasing" the contract using a token amount of "legal" tender, to seal the deal. Now, all We ask after We have honored, what they said was Our obligation, is to prove their claim. If they don't prove the claim We have honored, on blind faith up to this point, they assent to the account closing (in the process We use), and any "tender" becomes an overpayment because they didn't "produce" the claim as required in commercial law. The same principal that will "convict" You if You refuse the debt, now will convict them if they don't produce the evidence of Your debt.
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