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contract
contract [Latin contractus from contrahere to draw together, enter into (a relationship or agreement), from com- with, together + trahere to draw] 1 : an agreement between two or more parties that creates in each party...
Contract
Contract, an agreement between competent parties, to do or to abstain from doing some act. For numerous other definitions, see Chalmers's Sale of Goods Act, App. II., where it is said that the 'disposition of the...
Contract for sale of land
Contract for sale of land. The incidents of a contract for sale of land re regulated partly by statute and partly by the practice of conveyancers. A contract for sale of land must be in writing,...
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Subject to contract
Subject to contract, does not mean 'subject to the approval by the parties' solicitors of a formal contract. On the other hand, the expression 'subject to contract' has by now acquired definite ascertained legal meaning of...
Contract for work or service contract for sale of goods
Contract for work or service contract for sale of goods, the primary difference between a 'contract for work or service' and a 'contract for sale of goods' is that in the former there is in the...
Hire purchase agreement and contract for sale
Hire purchase agreement and contract for sale, a contract of hire-purchase is properly speaking a contract of hire by which the hirer is granted an option to buy but is not, as under a contract of...
Contract of service and contract for service
Contract of service and contract for service, a 'contract for service' implies a contract whereby one party undertakes to render services e.g. professional or technical services, to or for another in the performance of which he...
Contract of service
Contract of service, and contract for services. A contract for services implies a contract whereby one party undertakes to render services. A contract of service implies relationship of master and servant and involves an obligation to...
freedom of contract
freedom of contract :a power or right to contract and freely determine the provisions of contracts without arbitrary or unreasonable legal restrictions esp. as guaranteed under the contract clause of Article I, Section 10 of the...
Building contract
Building contract, 'A building contract means a contract for the building of anything--not necessarily a house, but any other physical construction', Carlisle R.D.C. v. Carlisle Corporation, (1909) 1 KB 471 (483). Building contract, is a contract...
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