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Smart Contracts and their Legal Recognition: Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Approaches presents the following source proposition: The research identifies key challenges in integrating self-executing agreements into existing legal frameworks, including issues of contract formation, enforceability, dispute resolution, and data protection compliance. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Smart contracts face a legal enforceability risk: they may be attacked as void and unenforceable, because contract law rules on formation, interpretation, conditions and remedies were not written for coded agreements and require substantive adjustment. 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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