Laws on contracts are set by individual member states in the European Union (EU).

Laws on contracts, patents, and other matters of concern to foreign businesses were also passed in an effort to attract international capital to spur China's development.

In the majority of European countries, although not in all of them, basic regulation dates back to the codification of civil law on contracts.

Possible Effects Considered If the Court overrules the 1976 decision, experts say, it would render the statute virtually redundant with others that bar states from discriminating against racial minorities in making laws on contracts and other ways.

The jury, in its verdict in a civil lawsuit in Philadelphia, found that U.S. Healthcare and three senior executives were liable under Federal antitrust and racketeering laws and a Pennsylvania law on contracts.

Further recognition of slavery was the Orientalist interpretation of classical texts, such as H.T. Colebrooke's Digest of Hindu Law on Contracts and Successions (1801), which allowed the British to assume inherent classifications of polluted and non-polluted labour to certain groups, with corresponding categories for unfree and free.