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By contract or otherwise
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Consideration
or perform the promise would be implied, see Lampleigh v. Braithwaite, Sm. L.C., the contract will be upheld, otherwise an executed consideration will not support a promise. Consideration has also been divided in regard to the time … of the transaction and in the absence of consideration the Courts will, except in the case of simple contract, accept other evidence from which intention will be inferred. A simple contract, that is to say, a promise
Salary or wages
of goods made within the State for cash, deferred payment or other valuable consideration and includes-- (a) transfer, otherwise than in pursuance of a contract, of property in any goods for cash, deferred payment or other valuable … and other ss. is wide enough to include not only a concluded contract of sale but also a contract or agreement of sale provided the agreement of sale stipulates that there was a transfer of property or movement
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contract
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Bailment
Bailment [fr. bailler, Fr., to deliver], a compendious expression to signify a contract resulting from delivery; perhaps best defined as a 'delivery of a thing in trust for some special object … described as a delivery on condition, to which the law usually attaches an obligation to redeliver the goods, or otherwise deal with them as directed, when the condition is satisfied; but there may be in particular cases a
cancel
a credit before presentment of a draft "Uniform Commercial Code"] 2 : to put an end to (a contract): as a : to end (a contract) by discharging the other party from obligations as yet unperformed b … a : to render (one's will or a provision in one's will) ineffective by purposely making marks through or otherwise marring the text of compare revoke NOTE: The text of the will or of the will's provision need
Tort
a right of action, being a wrongful act or injury consisting in the infringement of a right created otherwise than by a contract. Torts are divisible into three classes, according as they consist in the infringement of … (1994) 4 SCC 1 (9). It means a civil wrong which is not exclusively the breach of a contract or the breach of a trust. [Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963), s. 2 (m)] Tort has been derived
Representation
even if the contract to which it is collateral must be in writing under the Statute of Frauds or otherwise, if the principal or written contract is wholly silent on the subject, De Lassalle v. Guildford, (1901) 2
Hire
contract by the parties; and (4) by operation of law, as where the hirer becomes proprietor by purchase or otherwise of the thing hired. How far those principles which are derived altogether from the Roman and foreign laws … at the time appointed; to pay the price or hire; and, in general, to observe whatever is prescribed by contract, or by law, or by custom. The contract may be dissolved or extinguished in respect to future liabilities in
Workmen's Compensation Act
under a contract of service or apprenticeship with an employer, whether by way of manual labour, electrical work or otherwise, and whether the contract is express or implied, is oral or in writing, and also includes a person
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