A refugee camp holding thousands of displaced Darfurians/Sudanese in the aftermath of war in the western part of Sudan. A long history of civil war, local tensions, government distrust, and new environmental pressures have scarred the country and brought about the world's worst humanitarian crisis..
In order for a contract to be enforceable, each party to the contract must change his or her legal position in some way. If an agreement lacks consideration, it is generally not a binding and enforceable contract. There are a few exceptions to this rule. A person sued for breaking a promise generally will not be held liable when no consideration was received for the promise.
As we said earlier, a contract should always foresee the possibility of nonperformance, intentional or unintentional, and should spell out what is to be done. Some contracts go so far as to include an agreement on a set amount of liquidated damages which are to be paid in case something goes wrong.