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Steve voluntarily enrolls in a skydiving course and signs a contract that relieves the skydiving center of liability. After receiving proper instruction, he jumps from an airplane. Unfortunately, Steve is injured when he comes in too fast for his landing. He sues the skydiving center for damages.

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This is part of the topic of Capacity and Legality in chapter 12 and presents an example of the exculpatory clause

Step-by-step explanation:

The exculpatory clause is a contract provision that will make a party free of any guilt in case the other party who is the one that is going to be in a considerable and probable risk really gets hurt. Steve signed this paper then the company will defend themselves in court using the exculpatory clause as a legal resource.

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