In the United States, the “freedom of contract” doctrine makes the two parties that sign a written contract cooperate when one leases property to another. Specifically, a written contract forces two companies to transfer property between them for certain amounts of money, so that the lessee cannot fail to pay the lessor, and lie to excuse its delinquency. So, could our judges decide corporate lawsuits based on the moral “fairness” or “good faith” of contractors’ actions, as Chinese officials do? If American judges did not respect written contracts when deciding cases, and, like the Chinese, determined that parties need not follow contracts after signing them, litigants could lie in court and concoct arguments to wrongly alter verdicts. Thus,