What are the 3 C's of a contract?

The 3 C's of a contract are capacity, consent, and consideration. Capacity means both parties are legally able to agree: adults, sober, and mentally competent. Consent means they agreed freely, without fraud or pressure. Consideration means each side gives something of value, usually work for money.

Some teachers stretch the list to 4 C's or 5 C's by adding clarity and completeness. Those are drafting virtues rather than legal requirements, but they are the ones that save you in practice.

Miss a legal C and the contract can be void. Miss clarity and you win the argument only after an expensive fight about what a vague sentence meant. Plain fields beat clever prose.

A structured contract maker bakes all three into every document it produces.