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Mixed contract

Mixed contract, one in which one of the parties confers a benefit on the other, and requires of the latter something of less value than what he has given; as a legacy charged with something of...

Subject to formal contract

Subject to formal contract, does point in the direction of the offer or the acceptance being conditional, Rossadale v. Denny, (1921) 1 Ch 57.

Contract of marine insurance

Contract of marine insurance, may, by its express terms or by trade usage, be extended so as to protect the assured against losses on inland waters or against any land risk which may be incidental to...

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Works contract

Works contract, means any agreement for carrying out for cash, deferred payment or other valuable consideration- (a) the construction, fitting out, improvement, or repair of any building, road, bridge or other immovable property, (b) the installation...

Contract of tenancy

Contract of tenancy, is a letting of land, or an agreement for letting land, for a term of years or from year to year, and a letting or an agreement converted into a letting or agreement...

Bottomry Bond, or Contract, also Bottomree, or Bummaree

Bottomry Bond, or Contract, also Bottomree, or Bummaree, a species of mortgage or hypothecation of a ship, by which her keel or bottom is pledged (partum pro toto) as a security for the repayment of a...

Concluded contract

Concluded contract, is one which settles everything that is necessary to be settled and leaves nothing to be settled by agreement between the parties, May and Butcher Ltd. v. R. (1929), (1934) 2 KB 17n (21)...

Commutative contract

Commutative contract, one in which each of the con-tracting parties gives and receives an equivalent.

Breach of contract

Breach of contract, means violation of a contractual obligation, either by failing to perform one's own premise or by interfering with another party's performance, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 182.

Contract tablet

A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract for safe keeping Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case often called the envelope on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed...

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