On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, comex wrote: > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Kerim Aydin<ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, comex wrote: >>> It says "depends on", not "depends only on". If one or more factors >>> is necessary to preserve the existence of an entity, and one of them >>> is the contract, then its existence depends on the contract. >> >> And my dependents would survive without me but they *legally* depend >> on me. It's a legal distinction. > > No, their *existence* does not depend on you, legally or otherwise.
Not entirely true. For minors, their *legal* existence (ability to enter a contract for example) depends on a guardian of some type, if one disappears the court appoints another. -G.
