Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
No. Signing your name in blood was supposedly how one made a “deal with the devil,” i.e., selling one’s soul for a favor from Satan or one of his minions or pledging loyalty to Satan. The Contract was signed in blood because the person signing was giving themselves as the consideration in the deal.
Today, the phrase is used metaphorically to describe an especially onerous contract (e.g., “You’re asking a lot here. What’s next? Do I have to sign in blood?”) or a pact of extreme loyalty (“They were so serious, they might as well have signed in blood”). However, actual blood isn’t used since there’s no shortage of pens and other writing instruments.
Indeed, as other answers have noted, the use of blood is more likely to render a contract unenforceable than anything else since it raises the question of whether (a) the parties involved were of sound mind or (b) a party signed an agreement under duress, such as in this case, see Contract written in blood not enforceable, US court rules.
Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
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Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
I always thought that the expression “signed in blood” was a symbolic reference to the cost of the agreement, as in “The rise of Mussolini and Hitler proved that the Treaty of Versailles was signed in blood.” I like my old-fashioned, lawyer-worthy fountain pen, but wouldn’t blood coagulate and ruin it?
Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
Hey, there OPey,
If signed by the legally competent and the signatures witnessed or notarized, they will be just as valid as if they were signed in ink.
Blood has no significance except to make the Contract a bio-hazard.
Ciao.
Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
I have written promissory notes to the bearer, signed in blue fountain pen. As a protection against forgery, I considered a blood thumbprint on the face – however, it raises a problem in my mind.
Blood, even dried, is considered a hygiene risk. Technically, it could be claimed that I had sent potentially harmful biological material through the post without proper care. The value of the document as a transferrable instrument could arguably be impaired… and the transferee’s obligation to accept such undertakings or agreements could be put at risk.
In the end, I opted to place a line, separating the note from the stub – then tore down the stub side of this line to retain the stub.
The line proves that nothing in the torn section pertains to the document (Assures the bearer that the document is complete) … but the torn edge would match the stub and be very difficult to reproduce. The security was more than acceptable relative to the value of the bearer paper I had created.
Signing in blood or ink is (generally speaking) irrelevant in law. All that is relevant is that a person with requisite standing and competence has made a deliberate mark with unambiguously stated intent and in some particular capacity.
Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
… THAT is a valid signature!
Sure, blood may have the perceived benefit of conferring DNA to the document, but this may… arguably… render it toxic and hazardous. I wouldn’t be surprised if such a document could be refused without recourse.
Technically, I could carve a solemn undertaking into a frozen dog turd. It would be a valid document – but I feel certain that no judge would rule that the recipient must accept the turd as a valid undertaking – and may well charge the drawer of the document with various offenses related to the environment, hazardous materials, postal laws, and sundry. Similarly, with soiling a paper contract.
So…
- Is a blood thumbprint or mark a valid signature? Undoubtedly!
- Does it open one up to various defenses to acceptance? Quite arguably!
- Can it result in civil and criminal offenses during transfer? Very probably!
- Is it likely to cause a court to doubt your mental competence? Almost certainly : )
Therefore, I’d avoid it unless you’re joining some secret society where the parties willingly accept this silly pantomime and nonsense as part of the charade.
If nothing else, it’s a little childish ; )
Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
Yes, very much so.
In the Bible Belt, it is all needed to convict you of Satanism and any crimes the police specialist (trained in occult crimes) needs. It holds the same power as wearing all-black clothing, listening to rock music, having an inverted cross, or just crossing the police and being different.
You see, signing in blood is the traditional way to make a pact with the Devil or Satan, according to Christian Myth. Of course, the only ones who do this are Satan’s children’s lawyers, but it still holds.
Of course, we have DNA testing that could bring this back today. I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t start this to make contracts more binding and prove, beyond a doubt, who signed it. It’s better than a fingerprint, too.
I was in class, thinking about selling my soul for money, and I whispered, “Devil, I sell my soul to you,” but after that, I felt the same. How do I know if I sold my soul to the devil? What are the signs?
You did not sell your soul to the devil for a few reasons.
- You do not own or have a soul. You are the soul.
- You cannot give it away or sell it.
- The devil does not want your soul. It wants your emotions – fear, pain, sadness, anger, hatred.
- If you want money, work for it. Invent something, innovate, be creative, work smart, work hard. Provide services for others they want, need, and will pay for.
Good luck.
What are the signs that someone has sold their soul to the devil?
- They look a lot like my dad.
2. They peer out with scared eyes.
3. Their aura is black, and their eyes are pinholes blacker than anything ever seen before. If you see them at certain times, their eyes look like swirling black holes.
4. They probably drink and are on drugs of some sort.
5. They have no love. No.
6. The focus from their eyes is extreme. Their gaze could slice glass perfectly, straight as can be.
7. When you associate with them, you get the feeling that they know your weaknesses, and their brains can see them. It’s as if they are not the humans you see with your eyes, but instead, some monster wearing the body they have conquered.
Who sold their soul to the devil?
Bob Dylan hinted that he sold his sold to the devil in a 60 Minutes interview:
Question: Why do you still do it? Why are you still out here?
Dylan: It goes back to that destiny thing. I bargained with it long ago, and I’m holding up my end.
Q: What was your bargain?
Dylan: To get where I am now.
Q: Who did you make the bargain with?
Dylan: With the chief commander.
Q: On this earth?
Dylan: (laughing) On this earth and the world, we can’t see.
What would sell your soul to the devil do?
From what I understand about deals with the devil, he would grant you exactly what you wished for. However, it would have a twist. Rigged in his favor, in other words. He still needs a body, after all.
For example, Say you are falling in love with someone you can not have for whatever reasons. You, then, would offer your proposal to the devil. “I offer you my soul, and in return, I wish for events to have worked out so that I can be with so and so.” You would sign the Contract in your blood or something dramatic like that, and just like that, your wish is granted. All the reasons why you could not be with so and so are bypassed, and as it turns out, you do indeed fall deeply in love with that person. Some time into the future could be days, weeks, months, even years, the person you love and sold your soul to be with gets into a particularly nasty car crash, falls down a lengthy fleet of stairs, or chokes while eating something; take your pick, either way, that person dies. Desperately, you turn back to the devil in a futile attempt to refute the Contract. The devil smirks and replies, “You aren’t stupid; you should know this is a contract that one doesn’t simply refute. Besides, I granted your wish. You were with the person you wanted, were you not?” With the devil’s laughter still echoing in your head, you are warped back to where you were before you made the deal. You wonder if it was just a rather vivid dream. Yes, it might have felt like years, but dreams are funny, aren’t they? You move on and live a full life. Little do you know that when you die, you will “live” out eternity in hell, serving the devil.
Is a deal with the devil worth it? No, of course not. You will not get what you want. You might think things are going your way, but it is an illusion. There is no positive outcome.
How is Judge Judy allowed in the American legal system?
Originally Answered: How is Judge Judy allowed in our legal system?
Judge Judy is a legally binding arbitrator. Not a judge. She used to be a judge. But that was a long time ago.
Did you ever notice that Judge Judy never deals with any real crimes?
The people on her show aren’t thieves or murderers. They’re always two assholes who have some dispute. No one gets sent to jail, either. One asshole has to pay money to the other asshole.
The United States of America has two court systems. One for criminal cases. And another for civil cases. The civil cases have much less strict rules for rulings because they don’t involve actual crimes. They determine liability, not guilt.
(O. J. Simpson was acquitted on murder charges. Following a civil suit, he still had to pay his wife’s family 8.5 million dollars.)
The thing is, the government hates wasting money on civil lawsuits. No one wants to deal with you wanting to get back the $100 you lent your deadbeat roommate that he never paid you back for. No. One.
Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
For this reason, we have legally binding civil arbitration. Rather than going to court and wasting everyone’s time, people with a civil dispute can agree to go to an arbitrator — a person specially trained to resolve these disputes, with clearly defined powers and responsibilities.
Judge Judy is one such arbitrator. The people on her show have legally agreed to have her arbitrate their dispute. They both get paid a small sum of money for appearing. And they are both legally obligated to follow her rulings after all is said and done.
Judge Judy isn’t even the craziest part of the system. Since arbitrators aren’t part of the court system, they can be anyone. So long as the government thinks the people will listen to you and not waste the courts’ time, they will make you an arbitrator. This includes religious leaders.
There was even a whole argument about a decade ago over allowing Imams to become arbitrators.
EDIT:
As some people have pointed out in the comments, part of the agreement when going onto the Judge Judy show is that the show will pay any money that Judy awards the plaintiff. This makes the show especially attractive to people who don’t have much money and can’t afford to settle in court.
EDIT 2:
I had previously claimed that civil cases deal with guilt. As pointed out to me, they deal with liability. I had considered those two concepts interchangeable when legally they are not.
Can you get your soul back if you sell it to the Devil?
You are a soul; you can’t sell it to the Devil. If you’re not saved, he already has power over you because of your sin. All you have to do to break free from his power is believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and renounce the Devil and all his ways. Satan can not stop you from turning your life over to Christ. You have freedom of choice no matter what you’ve done in the past. Jesus died on the cross for you to free you from Satan’s power; believe in Him today and be set free.
Why did I have a dream I sold my soul to the Devil, one in pen and the other in blood?
Many psychologists will say it is a mental cause, but the truth is that the Lord Jesus confronts many signs of the condition of our heart, good or bad, and warns us if we drift off course. One of many ways He shows us is in dreams. Most dreams depict what we are experiencing in the spirit realm. He loves us unconditionally like a father and wants to continue to show us we can be free through Jesus’ blood that was shed for us. The Devil wants to steal your soul and put you in bondage without realizing it. He is a liar and thief and hates good.
Be of good cheer. The Gospel is the Power of Salvation for everyone who believes and receives this amazing Grace. Dreams usually confirm certain realities one is dealing with. Dreams should not lead you; they are “indicators” to confirm things to you to strengthen your bond with Jesus Christ.
Are blood transfusions legal?
In the United States, they are. I have yet to learn about other countries. But why would they be illegal anywhere? Blood transfusions save lives!
What does the Bible say about selling your soul?
Humans can’t sell their souls; God says all souls are His. This is a clear declaration by God to all who think they can sell their soul: It’s not your soul. You can’t sell something you don’t own!
Can I sell my soul to the Devil and my desires?
You can pretend to sell your soul, although there are at least two good reasons you can’t do it. The first is that you do not have a soul to sell; the second is that the Devil does not exist.
Has the Devil taken my soul?
No. Please seek out psychological care and tell them you may be having delusions.
Even if it’s a belief, the Bible does not say that any force can take your soul from you. Only YOUR actions can decide if you go to heaven and hell. Get a baptism. Pray. Go to a church that isn’t Jehovah’s Witness, Mormon, or Scientologist and start attending. If you already do attend somewhere, talk to the elders of your church, whatever their standing.
Your soul cannot be taken from you.
Are there stories of people who sold their souls to the Devil?
To understand this, you need to know about the Satan first. His main intention is to incite evil among humans as much as possible so that when he is driven into hell by Almighty God, satan’s main aim is to take together with him into hell as many humans as he can.
Selling a soul to Satan means succumbing to his total will voluntarily. The cause is absolute ignorance about Satan and his evil motives. Selling doesn’t mean Satan may accept money, etc. This has no use to Satan. Diverting people from a straight path and leading them astray so that individual forgets God’s wrath and unthinkingly bows to the command of Satan.
Is it true that if you pledge your soul to Satan, you’ll have an awesome life but go to hell after?
You don’t have to ‘pledge your soul’ to Satan because he already has it.
That ancient serpent is king over all the proud, haughty, and arrogant: he is the God of this world.
The only way to be saved from the consequences of your sins, crimes, and evil is to go to Jesus and ask for mercy.
Why sit there until you die?
If you remain where you are, you must perish.
Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
If you go to Jesus, you will live. If you sit in sullen despair, no one can pity you when your ruin comes, but if you were to die SEEKING MERCY (as if possible), you would be the object of universal sympathy.
You know others who were saved by believing in Him (your friends and neighbors), so why not you? Why not taste and see that the Lord is merciful?
To perish is awful. We assure you that if you seek Him, you will find Him, for He casts out none who come to Him. You shall not perish if you trust Him. On the contrary, you shall find eternal treasure that will be stored up for you beyond this life.
We preach to the living even where the vultures gather because we must. Because we know the truth, and the truth will set you free because we, too, were about to perish when we got up and sought mercy for ourselves. We preach because God has ordained us to do just that. A sacred responsibility.
Why are Americans scared of signing contracts?
I wouldn’t say scared. Well, I would. But wary. Too often, a contract has punitive stipulations that can hurt you if something happens to prevent you from sticking with it to the end.
For example, I had to turn in my company-owned phone after being laid off. I stopped by a new Sprint store on my way to my new job. I got a phone and was told I had two weeks to use it and turn it back in without penalty. I used it for a week, and it kept dropping calls. I took it back. They gave me another phone. I used it for the duration of the two weeks. It dropped calls, also.
Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
I decided that Sprint wasn’t a good carrier for my area. I took the phone back. They accepted it, marked the account clear, and gave me a receipt. About a month later, I got a bill from Sprint for $200, saying I’d broken the contract. I looked for my receipt but couldn’t find it. I called them, but they wanted to hear what I had to say with the receipt. Of course, I refused to pay it, so they put it on my credit report. It stayed there for years.
Eventually, I could get it off the report by challenging it. Since Sprint didn’t respond, it was removed from the report. But there are many horror stories of ways people have been damaged by signing contracts they should have understood better.
What are the consequences of selling your soul to Satan?
What would sell your soul to the Devil do?
From what I understand about deals with the Devil, he would grant you exactly what you wished for. However, it would have a twist. Rigged in his favor, in other words. He still needs a body, after all.
For example, Say you are falling in love with someone you can not have for whatever reasons. You, then, would offer your proposal to the Devil. “I offer you my soul, and in return, I wish for events to have worked out so that I can be with so and so.” You would sign the contract in your blood or something dramatic like that, and just like that, your wish is granted. All the reasons why you could not be with so and so are bypassed, and as it turns out, you do indeed fall deeply in love with that person. Some time into the future could be days, weeks, months, even years, the person you love and sold your soul to be with gets into a particularly nasty car crash, falls down a lengthy fleet of stairs, or chokes while eating something; take your pick, either way, that person dies. Desperately, you turn back to the Devil in a futile attempt to refute the contract. The Devil smirks and replies, “You aren’t stupid; you should know this is a contract that one doesn’t simply refute. Besides, I granted your wish. You were with the person you wanted, were you not?” With the laughter of the Devil still echoing in your head, you are warped back to where you were before you made the deal. You wonder if it was just a rather vivid dream. Yes, it might have felt like years, but dreams are funny, aren’t they? You move on and live a full life. Little do you know that when you die, you will “live” out eternity in hell, in servitude to the Devil.
Is a deal with the Devil worth it? No, of course not. You will not get what you want. You might think things are going your way, but it is an illusion. There is no positive outcome.
What are the consequences of selling your soul to Satan?
I’ve seen so many answers here, and only a few written anonymously, and those anonymous people are tellin’ the truth without interpretation.
I first trusted the “Devil” when I was 14, and God wasn’t there for me. I called him somehow that night and felt like surrendering to him. That was the only time I “worshiped” him.
My life was going fine like it used to. Nothing changed on a material level, but somehow, on a spiritual level, it started when I was 15, and I had sleep paralysis for three years in a row, each night, happening at 3 in the morning, three and a half, 3:45, and so on. There’s no need to explain sleep paralysis; you can google it. At the same time, I felt a presence in my home even when I wasn’t in sleep paralysis. It was a huge nothing, the darkest in the night’s darkness. It was like a living frequency but full of darkness. And she was always “looking” at me. Even my cat sees it… We’re the only 2life creatures who perceive this entity in my family house.
Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
Life happened; I was happy, sad, mostly happy in my high school years and mostly happy in my University years until I was 24. At 24, a person from my country but a different town wrote to me on social media. Somehow, I fell in love with that person. We met in my town, and he came to meet me. Until meeting each other, he came up with the idea of “helping” me. I needed help then; I was as fucked up as I was when I was 16. So lost, so forgotten by God, and God forgotten by me. He somehow knew that and told me he was the Devil, and the game started. He started by saying how God is not real, and the soul is nothing but an invention of humans, a form of control to keep us settled, not knowing how it is to live because we’re prisoners of the soul truly. A whole fucked up story that I honestly can’t recall it exactly as he said it, but somehow it was presented so well to believe it. That guy psychologically played me in a way my beliefs and values were presented as obstacles instead of being healthy. So, for one year, he tried to “erase” me. That’s how he called it. First, he asked me if I wanted to be helped. He warned me that the Devil is real and that he’s the only God on earth.
When we met, he presented me with a document representing an organization with 16 chapters. Each chapter represented a different grade of those involved in the organization. There were no names, just parties in a pyramidal order, starting with the new and little and ending with the “bosses.” In that document, you were supposed to change the fucking world order and form a new one, with a different type of values than normal people, and “always help others.” It was a document about power and control and being submissive simultaneously. I didn’t have to sign anything. When I was ready, I would receive my document, and that was it.
Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
After he left my town, we kept “our relationship” from a distance until I ended it after 9months of fucking up my brain. These 9months, I had to do all kinds of stupid rituals. I didn’t believe in them, but I made them because I loved this creature. I call him a creature because he looked like one; his body was glowing and pumping with life, and his eyes were dead but full of sparkle. And I’m not saying that just because I liked this creature; I’m saying that because even all my friends told me he was a psychopath and his body wasn’t human. I don’t have those friends anymore. Neither other friends.
So, one ritual was about killing a bird in six days. I couldn’t kill a bird, I tried to, but couldn’t catch one. I didn’t want to, but I had to if I wanted to escape. So, on the first day, I was getting out of work, looking at the sky, and a bird dropped dead on my feet. Did I kill that bird with my mind? Because physically, I couldn’t do it.
Since I couldn’t catch it, I had to write how that week went and what I did to catch it. I also had to send a video telling me my deepest secrets and vulnerabilities.
Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
Another ritual was to bathe for six days at six o’clock for 60 minutes and dive six times in water for 60 seconds each dive. During each dive, I had to “erase” myself, recalling every aspect that I am, and when the diving finished, I was “reborn,” and the water’s significance is my old self and soul, which will disappear when the bathtub is no longer filled with water. I didn’t believe in this process; I was lying to him that I was erasing myself and starting to think like he did, having the same values and beliefs just because I loved something like him.
I received my document.
Another thing I had to do was recruit other people by sending them the document and sharing these beliefs. I couldn’t do it properly because I was faking believing those beliefs. Or at least I thought I was faking them.
After nine months, he realized I hadn’t erased myself, and he started threatening me… my family, my body, my life if I didn’t erase myself quickly. He forced me to give him my address, my family names and numbers, my University exam schedule and qualifications, the people I meet up with and their names, and so on. My Facebook passwords, my email passwords. He said, “Did you think you had the Devil right before you and he’s not real? Did you think that selling your soul is a joke? I have your soul.”
Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
When all these threats happened, I had a breakdown. Couldn’t sleep for six days. I lost weight from 47 kgs to 40 kgs and until today never got my old weight back. And this happened in 2015. On the 6th day, with no sleep, I saw a beautiful white creature flowing above me. I can’t describe it because it wasn’t human; she looked alien. She wanted to get into me, but I rejected her. There were other 2white forms with her, but I was watching out for her. I say her because it was a feminine energy. After I rejected her, she somehow called the other two forms with her and flew out the window into the sky. Looking at the sky after, I saw God laughing at me. But I thought that was also the Devil. And those two pure white forms might have been my archangels, and that pure feminine spirit might have been my soul… but I thought they were the Devil too… because the phone was ringing, threatening my life. Was God laughing at me for rejecting my soul and coming back to me? Or did a psychopath simply make me crazy?
After we met for the second time in Cluj, I ended up talking with that person. He introduced me to his friends, who I call creatures, too, because they have the touch of evil. His friends are famous dancers and artists here and worldwide. His sister is one of the biggest photographers. Cold, shallow, selfish people… I don’t want to write about all the encounters in his town. But he called me there to humiliate me. So I left with no contact from then until now. For one year, I received emails telling me I couldn’t get away from this. My soul is his; this wasn’t a game, and he controls everything in my life. I told him I was the only master of my soul and truly believed that I was the only one with my soul; he was just a psycho.
Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
I returned to my life, school, and everything and wanted to leave this behind, and I thought I did. Until one year later, I didn’t know who the fuck I was anymore. It suddenly felt like I had amnesia of who and what I was. I started asking my mom who I was and how I used to be. My parents started not to recognize me. Fucked up my relationship with them, with my brother, fucked up my other relationships in time. I loved again, maybe met the love of my life, but for the first time, I was an abusive fucker and a violent lover. I started to live in abuse, to get my eyes darker, my skin darker, my teeth had fallen out and are still falling, I lost my love, I lost myself, lost my hobbies, lost my vocation, my calling, my everything and now I’m trying to hear my voice, but I somehow don’t have one. I’ve lost my light, and I think that is the soul, and each day, I’m looking in the mirror, waiting for me to come back and see the light in my eyes, not them being black like they weren’t before. These are not my eyes. I had voices telling me to quit life, but I won’t do it. I’ve seen so many demons and shadows that I’m tired of drawing them all. I can’t draw what I used to draw before this; I’m tired of drawing monsters. I was lying about giving my soul away, only to realize in time that I did erase myself. So now you tell me what the fuck can I do to get my soul back cus the soul is your inner voice, your inner light, your eyes.
Do contracts signed in blood have any special standing in the American legal system?
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