Schwarzschild v. Martin

How courts have described this case

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• “[Plaintiff’s] acceptance and use of the benefits of the credit card constituted his acceptance of the terms set forth in the Business Card Credit Agreement.”
• ‘‘parties may become bound by the terms of a contract, even though they do not sign it, where their assent is otherwise indicated, such as by the acceptance of benefits under the con- tract’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[i]n the absence of a statute requiring a signature . . . parties may become bound by the terms of a contract, even though they do not sign it, where their assent is otherwise indicated” [internal. quotation marks omitted]
• parties may be bound even if contract not signed
• “In the absence of a statute requiring a signature . . . parties may become bound by the terms of a contract, even though they do not sign it, where their assent is otherwise indicated, such as by acceptance of benefits under the contract.”
• applying this rule to settlement agreements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).