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The terms of a contract. Parties to a contract are bound only by its terms, not by other statements made in pre-contract talk. If inducements were promised, they can sit alongside the main contract as a âcollateral contractâ. Contracts will always contain different types of terms, with âconditionsâ being more important than âwarrantiesâ.
1 Thus, using a specific date in the contract as the effective date that not connected to signature dates may be problematic.  On the signature page of the contract, there is a place next to each signature for the party to write the date when they signed the contract. This option appears to avoid some of the ambiguity involved in the first option. The contract becomes effective when the last party signs the contract, indicating agreement between both parties.