Contract
Contract historically has been one of the central concepts, if not the central concept, defining the legal structure of liberal Western society. A variety of developments, however, have led to uncertainty about the meaning, nature, and scope of contractual relationships. The classical definition of contract, stated in perhaps its clearest form by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in the late nineteenth century, has a considerable continuing influence on the general orientation of the legal...
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