Comment by MisterMunchkin
16 hours ago
I don’t know about your jurisdiction but here the intent absolutely matters. If both parties intend something different to what was written then the written contract can be superseded.
There’s also situations like this where mistakes can be ignored.
Otherwise you could have really bad situations where both parties are forced into a stupid contract that doesn’t make sense, or someone is forced to sell their house for £1.000000 rather than £1,000,000.
Yes, but that is regarding the legal outcome. There are two different things going on here.
Legally, the grant contract is the "Casus belli" - it is the reason for which you have a claim to something, whether it was intent or not doesn't matter, you have a valid claim to take them to court, there is no need to really talk about that. However it gets resolved, is really not something I can tell, not a lawyer.
Whether I remain friends or on trustworthy terms is a personal matter, which is unrelated to legal outcomes in this case.