An agreed exchange of promises involving a meeting of minds or the procedural doings that customarily represent such a meeting of minds (e.g., the welcome entry and participation within the domain of another’s property). | (1) Democracy, governmental procedure, or supposed consent given by choosing to exist within the overlord’s dominion; “social contract.” (2) Some vague set of agreements, only, not impelled by “necessity,” the “capitalist system,” etc., thus, it is not voluntary contract when one party, from poverty, is “forced to work.” |