Risk management in business is everything. In fact it’s the main job of an entrepreneur to manage risks related to the business. One of the tools to manage risk is a binding contract. By means of a binding contract it is possible to hand over some risk to another party in exchange for a fee. Now, the fee is the key element to it. Why should another party be liable for your risk in exchange for nothing? That’s abusive! That’s why only a fee makes a contract binding. But that’s not a sufficient condition. The fee must also be reasonable (so-called “reasonable consideration”). If the fee is not reasonable, the contract is abusive again.
Now, imagine some complex piece of technology, e.g. secure communication. You don’t how it works. You only need an SSL certificate that works. You go to a certification authority, you pay money and get an SSL certificate.
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