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… be bound to a contract if it has expressed its (apparent) intention to enter into a legal relationship with somebody else. This assumes that people have control over what they intend and are able to assess what is in their best interest. If someone buys a house, opens a restaurant or decides to participate in the local Beauty Queen election, everyone will assume that these are rational decisions taken by people having full cognitive ability. Luckily the great majority of people indeed have this … drove a car’) or medical condition (‘she looked as healthy as Sophie Dahl’) plays no role. In case of legal incapacity, the law sacrifices legal certainty and the objective approach in order to protect people not able to exercise their free will. The shop owner who is close to selling a BeoSound 5 audio system to a young looking customer can always ask for an ID. Court decisions incapacitating adults are usually published in a national public register that in some countries is even available online for a quick and easy check. 8 B. Other adults Contracts can obviously also be concluded by people who are not formally declared incapable or in need of a custodian by a court decision, but who do suffer from some mental disorder. In particular if this disorder is only of a …