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social contract
social contract : an actual or hypothetical agreement among individuals forming an organized society or between the community and the ruler that defines and limits the rights and duties of each
Divisible Contract
Divisible Contract, there is an express or implied agreement that payments will be made in proportion to the work performed, unless a trade custom to the contrary can be proved, Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para...
Contract
To draw together or nearer to reduce to a less compass to shorten narrow or lessen as to contract ones sphere of action
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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...
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...
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.
Commutative contract
Commutative contract, one in which each of the con-tracting parties gives and receives an equivalent.
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)...
To contract a marriage
To contract a marriage, means to solemnize or enter into a marriage under any law for the time being in force or by custom or usage in any form or manner. [Gujarat Registration of Marriages Act,...
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...
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