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When does an electronic or automated act have legal effect, to whom is it attributable, and who bears the loss when the system produces the wrong result?
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Global Edition · Chapter 16: Electronic Transactions, Signatures and Automated Acts
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Other records in this book or edition
- When a digital-asset arrangement executes as programmed, how can a legal order identify who holds the right, which authority may act, and who bears the loss?
- How does a recorded event acquire authority over persons who did not write or operate the record, and what does that history teach about tokens and distributed ledgers?
- How can a digital-asset arrangement be described, before any legal label is applied, in terms of asset, activity, actor, infrastructure and control?