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2. Contract - Wikipedia

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   Contract law. A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties. A contract typically involves consent [1] to transfer of goods, services, money, or promise to transfer any of those at a future date. The activities and intentions of the parties entering into a contract ...

3. United States contract law - Wikipedia

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   Contract law. Contract law regulates the obligations established by agreement, whether express or implied, between private parties in the United States. The law of contracts varies from state to state; there is nationwide federal contract law in certain areas, such as contracts entered into pursuant to Federal Reclamation Law.

4. Social contract - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. In moral and political philosophy, the social contract is an idea, theory or model that usually, although not always, concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual. [1] Conceptualized in the Age of Enlightenment, it is a core concept of constitutionalism, while not necessarily convened and written down in a ...

5. Formal contract - Wikipedia

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   Formal contract. A formal contract is a contract where the parties have signed under seal, while an informal contract [1] is one not under seal. A seal can be any impression made upon the document by the parties to the contract. This was traditionally done in wax stating the intentions of the parties to be bound by the contract.

6. Simple contract - Wikipedia

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   Simple contract. In contract law, [ 1] a simple contract is a contract made orally or in writing or both of them rather than a contract made under seal. [ 2] Simple contracts require consideration to be valid, [ 3] but simple contracts may be implied from the conduct of parties bound by the contract. [ 4] William Blackstone observed in his ...

7. Standard form contract - Wikipedia

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   A standard form contract (sometimes referred to as a contract of adhesion, a leonine contract, [a] a take-it-or-leave-it contract, or a boilerplate contract) is a contract between two parties, where the terms and conditions of the contract are set by one of the parties, and the other party has little or no ability to negotiate more favorable terms and is thus placed in a "take it or leave it ...