contract

agreement having a lawful object entered into voluntarily by multiple parties (may be explicitly written or oral)
class legal_term_or_legal_concept Q93288
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contract

Summary

contract is a legal term or legal concept[1]. contract ranks in the top 8% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (749 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • contract's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[3].
  • contract is a type of intellectual work[4].
  • contract is a type of legal transaction[5].
  • contract is a type of agreement[6].
  • contract is a type of promise[7].
  • contract is part of document[8].
  • contract's Commons category is recorded as Contracts[9].
  • contract's said to be the same as is recorded as Q141239420[10].
  • contract comprises contracting party[11].
  • A participant in contract was legal person[12].
  • contract's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Contracts[13].
  • contract's described at URL is recorded as https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/contract[14].
  • contract's described at URL is recorded as https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/contract[15].
  • contract's facet of is recorded as contract law[16].
  • contract's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[17].
  • contract's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • contract's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • contract's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[20].
  • contract's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • contract's described by source is recorded as Practical Concepts in Contract Law[22].
  • contract's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[23].
  • contract's described by source is recorded as Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān[24].
  • contract's described by source is recorded as Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur'an[25].
  • contract's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[26].
  • contract's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[27].

Why It Matters

contract ranks in the top 8% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (749 views/month).[2] contract has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] contract is known by 98 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . referenceworks.brillonline.com. referenceworks.brillonline.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . online.iequran.com. online.iequran.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · AddyLockPool · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'am', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca',
    Sitelink count → 108
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +11
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1343]]: [[Q16939300]]"
  2. 4w ago · M2k~dewiki · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 4630
    Said to be the same as → Q141239420
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P460]]: [[Q141239420]], using [[User:Frettie/consistency check add.js]]"
  3. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → contracts
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: contracts, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289917226|contracts (#289917226)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  4. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2InmG4
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 15w ago · Breogan2008 · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 105073
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P13613]]: 105073"
  6. 16w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0436882-smisene-smlouvy, 0436881-nepojmenovane-smlouvy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0436881-nepojmenovane-smlouvy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  7. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0436882-smisene-smlouvy, 0436881-nepojmenovane-smlouvy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0436882-smisene-smlouvy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  8. 17w ago · Daask · 2026-06-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → legal term or legal concept
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q1047113]]"
  9. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → —
    Gnd id → 4063270-2
    Has effect → —
    + 108 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 3356, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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