A contractor agrees to install an unpermitted electrical system that knowingly violates code and endangers occupants. If a dispute arises over payment, how will a court most likely treat the agreement?

Giải thích

A contract must have a lawful object. A contract to perform an illegal act, such as knowingly installing dangerous, code-violating work, is illegal and therefore unenforceable by either party; courts generally leave the parties where they find them. Mutual agreement cannot cure illegality. This is not merely voidable by one party; illegality makes the entire bargain unenforceable as against public policy.