A contract is, by definition, an agreement that "gives rise to legally enforceable rights" ## United States Law Contract Defined. A contract is **a promise or a set of promises for** the breach of which the law gives a remedy, or the performance of which the law in some way recognizes as a duty. ## French Law ["A contract is a concurrence of wills between two or more persons to create, modify, assign or terminate obligations" [[French Law]]