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Aleatory contract

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WP:NOTDICT. Minehollow (talk) 21:51, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:54, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:DICDEF. I would not be able to create more than a five-sentence stub for this. I think I have a reputation for trying to rescue each and every legal stub, but this one isn't worth the hassle. Bearian (talk) 02:34, 12 August 2025 (UTC)
• Keep this is part of civil law's law of obligations and is a useful concept for gathering gambling and insurance contracts together. The article itself needs work - I cleaned it up a bit and added two journal articles with significant coverage.
  French Wikipedia has two articles about this, of which Contrat aléatoire deals mostly with Quebec and Contrat aléatoire en France deals with France; neither had much detail to add to this article. Oblivy (talk) 01:51, 15 August 2025 (UTC)
• Keep I have tried to find a merge target (some concept in common law), the closest is Game of chance but that only covers gambling. It is also a concept in Belgian civil law of contracts (and probably all jurisdictions influenced by French civil law). Rolluik (talk) 10:15, 17 August 2025 (UTC)
• Keep This is a distinct concept in civil law jurisdictions, particularly those going back to the Napoleonic Code, subject to its own scholarly and juridical literature. Merging it to any common law concept would be misleading. The article can certainly be developed beyond a dictionary definition. --Andreas Philopater (talk) 10:36, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

  This is well-put. As a civil law concept it seems to be very well-explored in the literature. The concept has some parallels in common law in things like unlawful wagering contracts but it's not analogous. WP:NOTDICT is for articles about words not concepts. Note that there is no commutative contract page either (considering the opposition between commutative:aleatory) but I don't see that as a problem. Oblivy (talk) 11:01, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

• Since other editors are working on this, I've struck my !vote. Bearian (talk) 12:53, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

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