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Contracts have been with us since the dawn of commerce. From the Silk Road to Wall Street; from the spice trade to the stock trade; from the Hudson’s Bay Company to eBay; contracts are the universally accepted way of doing business. Yet who can say with any certainty what a contract is? Or what a contract does? Or what a contract even looks like?

The law can. Therefore, we begin our journey of learning how to write our own business contracts by looking at what the law says a contract is.