Courts started doing this because people were playing dumb in court to get out of contracts: "oh I didn't know I was agreeing to that"
So instead, courts started calling bullshit on it, and today judge things as: "look, you went along with the transaction as if you agreed to it and a reasonable person in your situation should have known you were agreeing to it, and that's good enough"
Because "modern contract doctrine requires only objective manifestations of assent"
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/meeting_of_the_minds
Courts started doing this because people were playing dumb in court to get out of contracts: "oh I didn't know I was agreeing to that"
So instead, courts started calling bullshit on it, and today judge things as: "look, you went along with the transaction as if you agreed to it and a reasonable person in your situation should have known you were agreeing to it, and that's good enough"