OMG, I'm an exceptionally fast reader and I don't have anywhere near enough time to read all the "terms of service" contracts for all the software & services that I use. I hate it but I'm forced to "skim" many of them because there's just no friggin' way in hell that I could possibly read all that. The only way I could see this possibly working is if there was a standard rules agreement and people had to list where there rules deviated from that. Otherwise, it's just not happening baby - it's a pipe dream.
It's likely entire communities would adopt similar contracts, sort of like Blue Sky laws. Thus you'd only need to know what's common in that area and anywhere that points differ could be automatically pointed out for you.
Gee, maybe I should bring this idea up at the next home owners association meeting. Having a slightly more restrictive set of laws, enforced by a small additional fee, that everyone agrees to when they buy in is such a novel concept.
Really, guys?
It's completely different from that, actually, even if the result is somewhat similar. Any society is going to have law, I'm proposing a radically different way to generate it.
Tell me again how this scheme differs from what I am living in right now.
Each person and property owner has 100% control over their legal circumstances; it is the ultimate form of individualism, each person a sovereign, no one can force anyone to adopt any particular law. That is extreeeeeemely different from the scheme you're living in now, so much as to make how you're living now appear to be at least a partial tyranny by contrast.
I have the US law, with the local state law (CA) layered on top of that. Then the local county law and, in my case, the local homeowners association "rules". If I don't like the HOA, I sell and buy elsewhere. If I don't like the CA state laws, I move to a different state.
That's the big difference. If you don't like the law in such a society as what I propose you don't have to move. You simply toss off the law, remain in place, and propose a new law for yourself, and no one can stop you. Big difference.