Unconscionable definition

Unconscionable shall be deemed to mean that the enforcement of the entire Agreement or a specific clause of the Agreement will work oppression or cause unfair surprise to one of the parties. Unconscionability shall be determined as of the time when the Agreement is made, but shall not be deemed established by the fact that one of the parties has bargaining power superior to that of the other.
Unconscionable means an act or conduct which is willful and is so harsh and unjust as would be condemned or considered to be wrongful and would be shocking to the conscience of honest and fair-minded persons; and[.]
Unconscionable means unfair or oppressive, involving procedural abuses relating to terms of contract where the terms of the contract violate reasonable expectations of the parties;

Examples of Unconscionable in a sentence

  • In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it.

  • Jensen, Using Arbitration to Eliminate Consumer Class Actions: Efficient Business Practice or Unconscionable Abuse?, 67 LAW & CONTEMP.

  • Negative deviations of agreed targets (on individual level, level of responsibility or level of the Company), Breach of Duty and Unconscionable Conduct shall lead to a reduction of 1-100% of the Variable Remuneration (100% means no award of Variable Remuneration).

  • A reduction of the Variable Remuneration to 0 shall also apply in case of (iii) severe Unconscionable Conduct and conduct in severe culpable Breach of Duty.

  • Unconscionable conduct within the meaning of the unwritten law (1) A person must not, in trade or commerce, engage in conduct that is unconscionable, within the meaning of the unwritten law from time to time.


More Definitions of Unconscionable

Unconscionable means oppressive or totally unreasonable, considering
Unconscionable means actions or conduct by which a creditor or facilitator:
Unconscionable when used with any conduct, means –
Unconscionable means oppressive or unreasonably harsh or unfair, considering all of the circumstances of the loan transaction as such term "unconscionable" is described in the Official Comment and New York Annotations for section 2-302 of the Uniform Commercial Code. This publication may be viewed at the New York State Banking Department located at [the New York State Banking Department located at Two Rector Street, New York, NY 10006] the New York City office of the New York State Banking Department located at the address stated in Supervisory Policy G 1 of Title 3 of the NYCRR and the Department of State located at 41 State Street, Albany, NY 12231. The Uniform Commercial Code is published by West Publishing Company and is for sale by the West Group, 620 Opperman Drive, P.O. Box 64526, St. Paul, MN 55164-0779.
Unconscionable means “showing no regard for conscience, not in accordance with what is right or reasonable”: see The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. This definition has been tweaked in the context of s. 5(6) of the Family Law Act to include – “shocking”: see Kelly v. Kelly (1986), 50 R.F.L. (2d) 360; 2
Unconscionable means. The only guidance is provided in the commentary to section 6 of the UPAA, which states that the standard of unconscionability is a commercial law standard intended to protect against one-sidedness, oppression or unfair surprise. Based on the wording of paragraph 2 of Section 6(a), unconscionability alone is not a sufficient defense against enforcement. If a party receives reasonable financial disclosure or waived that disclosure or had reasonable knowledge of the property of the other, the agreement will be enforceable no matter how unconscionable it may be.
Unconscionable is not defined in Circular 230. Although Circular 230 does not say so, an attorney can presume that the IRS would look to the bar rules having jurisdiction over the lawyer to determine what an unconscionable fee is.