Comment by sterlind
5 years ago
it has to chain back to reality eventually though.
the courts have had to rule over whether action figures are toys or dolls, because those had different tariffs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Biz,_Inc._v._United_States
you can make an incredibly verbose smart contract but lawyers will weasel about the inputs like this.
Sure, I don't think my post disagrees with that. You're discussing regulation. I only referred to a very particular type of legal case: a contract dispute between two private parties wherein the contract is legally valid and the parties have agreed to abide by the determination of the program.
Not all law will be like this, it's too complicated, but some of it might be and that's interesting.