Concept
Contract
Overview
agreement having a lawful object entered into voluntarily by multiple parties (may be explicitly written or oral)
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For the Thing may be delivered together with the Translation of the Right; as in buying and selling with ready mony; or exchange of goods, or lands: and it may be delivered some time after. Covenant What Again, one of the Contractors, may deliver the Thing contracted for on his part, and leave the other to perform his part at some determinate time after, and in the mean time be trusted; and then the Contract on his…
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
The chapter “CHAPTER XIV. OF THE FIRST AND SECOND NATURALL LAWES, AND OF…” is titled for Contract; names Contract several times.
It is usual and right that the law, when a contract is entered into, should require as the condition of its enforcing performance, that certain formalities should be observed, such as signatures, attestation of witnesses, and the like, in order that in case of subsequent dispute, there may be evidence to prove that the contract was really entered into, and that there was nothing in the circumstances to render it…
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Names Contract several times; states what Contract is.
Contracts or laws, whereby the multitude transfers its right to one council or man, should without doubt be broken, when it is expedient for the general welfare to do so. But to decide this point, whether, that is, it be expedient for the general welfare to break them or not, is within the right of no private person, but of him only who holds dominion; therefore of these laws he who…
Benedictus de Spinoza, The Philosophy of Spinoza
Names Contract several times; states what Contract is.
Philosophers who discussed Contract
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Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Liberalism.