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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Altalazar" data-source="post: 2653832" data-attributes="member: 939">I'm speaking of trivial in the legal sense, given the circumstances, as I described above.  For example, if you had a contract with someone to build them a 10 million dollar skyscraper, and the agreement included the requirement for a specific five dollar doorknocker on the front door, and through an honest mistake, you got the wrong doorknocker - technically, you'd be in breach of the contract, but legally, it is so trivial that the building owner could not use it as the basis of rescinding the contract - if he tried to do that in court, he'd be thrown out of court and perhaps even given sanctions.  The proper response is just to ask you to fix the doorknocker, not to try to end the contract.  This was a situation of a misunderstanding resulting in some extra fine print on the legal page that was honestly thought to be needed - text that was likely hardly read by anyone who uses the site and was not part of the 'useful' part of the site.  I think some here have a misconception about the way contract law works, which is understandable if you've not had several good classes on contract law.</blockquote>