A contract is a promise, or set of promises, for breach of which the law gives a remedy, or the performance of which the law in some way recognizes as a duty. Contracts law involves assisting individuals and businesses in the negotiation and execution of all types of legally enforceable agreements -- including contracts for the sale of property, employment agreements, and promissory notes -- and also to represent clients in legal disputes and litigation to enforce contracts.
New Sweden is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 621 at the 2000 census. The town made national news headlines in 2003 when a man poisoned the coffee urn at the local Lutheran church, sickening 15 elderly parishioners and killing one.