Would you sign this Contract?

Mrnkar_2

Hi, I've just been sent the Contract to sign for my house purchase. 
My solicitor asked for some conditions to be removed from the original draft contract sent by the seller's solicitor. 
The contract I have been sent still has the original conditions on it but they have been crossed out as shown in the photo. 
I thought a new contract should have been drawn up without the conditions appearing on it. 
Is this Contract legal with the crossed out bits? I have never come across it before with my previous house purchases. Thank you

Emmia

This is a question you should pose to your legally qualified solicitor.

GDB2222

As long as both sides sign contracts that are the same, I don’t see any problem.  

Besides that, there’s all the correspondence between the solicitors about what the parties agreed. 

Mrnkar_2

Emmia said:

This is a question you should pose to your legally qualified solicitor.

I did send an email to my solicitor last night but thought I would ask on here while waiting on an answer back. Thanks 

GDB2222 said:

As long as both sides sign contracts that are the same, I don’t see any problem.  

Besides that, there’s all the correspondence between the solicitors about what the parties agreed. 

Thanks. I just wasn't sure somewhere down the line that they could say we crossed it out after signing. That's what concerned me.

user1977

Mrnkar_2 said:

GDB2222 said:

As long as both sides sign contracts that are the same, I don’t see any problem.  

Besides that, there’s all the correspondence between the solicitors about what the parties agreed. 

Thanks. I just wasn't sure somewhere down the line that they could say we crossed it out after signing. That's what concerned me.

There are solicitors on both sides. It would be pretty stupid for somebody to try arguing that the contract was forged (or to attempt to do so)

GDB2222

There’s always scope for a mistake, and for the two signed contracts to be different, I suppose. But that could happen even if they were beautifully typed out.

 In practice, it would almost certainly not matter! Most transactions happen on the agreed date, without anyone even looking at the contract. 

Beeblebr0x

As a general rule, I'd be quite happy to see crossed out paragraphs as, once the contract is signed, neither party can claim they were unaware of the deletions.

I've no expertise on this and am happy to be corrected.

Hoenir

Contracts start as standard documents and are edited accordingly by both sets of solicitors. There not retyped.