What is the nature of the contract?

Legal analysis: 1. Contracts can be divided into paid contracts and unpaid contracts, unilateral contracts and bilateral contracts, important contracts and unnecessary contracts, famous contracts and anonymous contracts, master contracts and subordinate contracts.

1. A paid contract refers to a contract in which either party is obliged to pay a certain amount of money while enjoying the rights. Most paid contracts such as sales, leasing, contracting, paid entrustment and paid custody are bilateral contracts.

2. A gratuitous contract refers to a contract in which one party only enjoys contractual rights without paying any price, also known as a favor contract. Free contract is not a typical transaction form. In practice, there are mainly gift contracts, free loan contracts and free custody contracts.

3. A unilateral contract, also known as a unilateral contract or a unilateral obligation contract, refers to a contract in which one party only enjoys the right to fail to perform its obligations, while the other party only assumes the obligation but does not enjoy the right (such as a gift contract, a loan contract for returning things and a contract for keeping them free of charge), which corresponds to a two-way contract.

4. A bilateral contract refers to a contract in which both parties enjoy rights and assume obligations. Sales contract is a typical contract in real life. Most contracts are bilateral contracts, such as sales, reciprocity, leasing and contracting.

A major contract refers to a contract with certain forms and procedures required by law.

5, don't type contract, refers to the law does not require a certain form and formalities of the contract.

6. A well-known contract refers to a contract whose name has been determined according to its type in law or economic habits, also known as a typical contract.

7. An unnamed contract refers to a contract that has not been uniformly named except for a well-known contract.

8. A master contract refers to a contract that can exist independently without the existence of other contracts.

9. From the contract point of view, it must be based on the existence of other contracts and cannot exist independently (such as mortgage and pledge guarantee contracts established by loan contracts). 2. Contracts can be divided into employment contracts, secondment contracts, unpaid leave contracts, technology transfer contracts and technology development contracts. Among them, the technology development contract can be divided into entrusted development contract, cooperative development contract, technical consultation contract and technical service contract, which is an agreement to establish the rights and obligations between the employer and the employed workers.

1. The secondment contract is an agreement between the seconded unit, the seconded unit and the seconded employee to clarify their mutual rights and obligations for the seconded employee to engage in a certain job.

2. Leave-without-pay contract refers to the contract signed by the employee with the employer in order to leave the original post within a certain period of time.

3, technology transfer contract, refers to the contract between the parties about the transfer of patent application rights, patent licensing, technology secret transfer.

4. Technology development contract refers to the contract concluded between the parties on the research and development of new technologies, new technologies, new materials and their systems, including entrusted development contract, cooperative development contract, technical consultation contract and technical service contract.

Legal basis: Article 469 of the Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC), the parties may conclude a contract in written form, orally or in other forms.

Written form refers to contracts, letters, telegrams, telexes, faxes and other forms that can tangibly express the contents contained.

A data message that can tangibly express its content through electronic data interchange, e-mail, etc. , and can be retrieved at any time, are considered in writing.

Article 470 The contents of a contract shall be agreed upon by the parties, and generally include the following clauses:

(1) The name and domicile of the party concerned;

(2) Subject matter;

(3) quantity;

(4) quality;

(5) Price or remuneration;

(6) Time limit, place and method of performance;

(7) Liability for breach of contract;

(8) Methods for resolving disputes.

The parties may conclude a contract by referring to the model texts of various contracts.