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Lien of a Covenant

Lien of a Covenant. The commencement of a covenant stating the names of the covenantors and covenantees, and the character of the covenant, whether joint or several....

Covenant, writ of (abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27, s. 36), a writ for claiming damages for breach of covenant,superseded by the action of covenant where the damages were unliquidated and by the actionof debt where liquidated; both of these forms of action havenow been abolished. See ACTIONS and preceding title....

Contract under seal

Contract under seal, is sometimes called, a contract by speciality, is a contract which is made by deed, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 9, para 210, p. 86....

Pre-contract

Pre-contract. Where one of the parties to a marriage was under a prior agreement to marry a third person, such prior agreement was called a pre-contract. It was a canonical impediment to the marriage of either party. The Ecclesiastical Courts would formerly enforce this agreement, by compelling the parties to a public marriage, and if one of them had already married, such marriage would be void ab initio; but until thus avoided it was good. See 32 Hen. 8, c. 28, and 2 & 3 Edw. 6, c. 23, s. 2; Bishop on Marriage and Divorce, s. 53. But pre-contract is no longer a cause for dissolving a marriage in England; see 26 Geo. 2, c. 33; Co. Litt. 79 b, and Hargrave's note (4)....

Contract labour

Contract labour, a workman shall be deemed to be employed as 'contract labour' in or in connection with the work of an establishment when he is hired in or in connection with such work by or through a contractor, with or without the knowledge of the principal employer. [Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (37 of 1970), s. 2 (1) (b)]Means any person engaged or employed in any premises by or through a contractor, with or without the knowledge of the employer, in any manufacturing process. [The Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 (32 of 1966), s. 2 (e)]...

Contract for sale

Contract for sale. A sale implies a consideration in money or money's worth in return for the thing sold and consequently consideration is an integral part of a contract for sale. The legal incidents of a contract for sale of goods have been embodied and codified in the Sale of Goods Act, 1893. See SALE....

Contract carriage

Contract carriage, means a motor vehicle which carries a passenger or passengers for hire or reward and is engaged under a contract, whether expressed or implied, for the use of such vehicle as a whole for the carriage of passengers mentioned therein and entered into by a person with a holder of a permit in relation to such vehicle or any person authorised by him in this behalf on a fixed or an agreed rate or sum-(a) on a time basis, whether or not with reference to any route or distance; or [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, s. 2 (7) (a)](b) from one point to another. [The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, s. 2 (7) (b)]And in either case, without stopping to pick up or set down passengers not included in the contract anywhere during the journey, and includes:a maxicab; and [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, s. 2 (7) (b) (i)]a motorcab notwithstanding the separate fares are charged for its passengers. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, s. 2 (7) (b) (ii)]...

Bilateral contract

Bilateral contract, a contract in which both the contracting parties are bound to fulfil obligations reciprocally towards each other; as a contract of sale, where one becomes bound to deliver the thing sold, and the other to pay the price of it, Civil Law....

land contract

land contract : land installment contract at contract ...

implied in fact contract

implied in fact contract :implied contract at contract ...

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