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Contract of Adhesion

A standard-form contract offered on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.

Adhesion establishes a minimum degree of procedural unconscionability in most states but does not by itself invalidate anything — nearly every consumer contract is adhesive. Its significance is as a multiplier: on the sliding scale, an adhesive contract lowers the quantum of substantive one-sidedness required to make a term unenforceable.

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