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Responsible Corp Leadership: Was This A Legal Contract?
Joel Carter
MBA 610
Responsible Corp Leadership
Illegal Contracts

Was this a legal contract?
This contract was legal. A contract is created when two or more separate parties assume defined obligatory roles that have lawful considerations. Put more simply, a contract is valid only when non-prohibited actions are being considered. A contract is of course a "legal" document. This implies that the roles and actions are also legal, and the parties obligated can legally complete the noted tasks. Granted, CCP could have made the agreement, and had a pending licensure to do the work. So the contract was legal, and it could have been fulfilled by CCP, if they had acquired the necessary licenses to complete the job, but they did not. Therefore,
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