ais523 wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 13:29 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >> I agree to the following: >> 4. If Wooble fails to transfer crops within the specified deadline, e >> shall transfer to the Farmer either the points e received or crops >> sufficient to harvest the ID of another proposal in the same chamber >> as the specified one in its voting period, at the Farmer's option, >> plus a penalty of 2 crops to be chosen by Wooble. This penalty should >> be held to be equitable without any further equity imposed by the >> courts. Farmers who do not agree with this provision should not >> transfer points to Wooble under the terms of this pledge. > > I've just noticed a brilliant loophole in this. If you fail to transfer > crops under another clause of the contract, you can then fail to > transfer crops under clause 4 itself, and clause 4 simply suggests a > bigger crop penalty for that, etc. Probably this wasn't intended...
In which case the "should" would leave an opening for an equity judge to rule "Wooble is abusing the spirit, so here's further equity".
