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Modernizing Contracts Across Industries: A Review of Smart Contract Applications and the Evolving Legal Landscape presents the following source proposition: Specifically, smart contracts can be integrated with or replace traditional contracts with the benefit of ensuring reciprocal obligations are enforced and aid in ensuring mutual consent, offer and acceptance, consideration and legal purpose. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Smart contracts disrupt the foundational principles of contract formation in both common and civil law jurisdictions, specifically offer and acceptance, consideration, and enforceability, because their automated and immutable execution lacks the flexibility that law derives from human negotiation and judicial oversight. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
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