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Arising from a contract

Arising from a contract, refers to a contract entered into by the unregistered firm with the third party defendant in the course of mutual business dealings, Haldiram Bhujiawala v. Anand Kumar Deepak Kumar, (2000) 3 SCC...

By contract or otherwise

By contract or otherwise, the words 'by contract or otherwise' in the second limb of the s. 10 of the Estate Duty Act, 1953 will not control the words 'to the entire exclusion of the donor'...

Commodity contract

Commodity contract, means a contract for the sale of goods regularly dealt with on a commodity market or exchange in England or Wales which is specified for the purpose of this section by an order made...

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Contract of benevolence

Contract of benevolence, a contract made for the benefit of one of the contracting parties only, as a mandate or deposit.

quasi contract

quasi contract see contract

Contract, breach of, inducement of

Contract, breach of, inducement of. In the case of seamen it is by s. 236 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, an offence to persuade or attempt to persuade seamen or apprentices to desert or...

Contract, freedom of

Contract, freedom of. Modern legislation has fre-quently interfered with freedom of contract, as, e.g., by invalidating contracts, as, e.g., by invalidat-ing contracts exempting railway companies from their liabilities as carriers of goods by the 7th s....

Deposit pre-contract

Deposit pre-contract, means any sum paid by any person as an earnest of his intention to acquire an interest in land or towards meeting any liability which will arise if he acquires or enters into an...

Entire contract

Entire contract, a contract wherein everything to be done on the one side is the consideration for everything to be done on the other. See CONTR-ACT.

Executed contract

Executed contract, where nothing remains to be done by either party, and where the transaction is completed at the moment that the agreement is made, as where an article is sold and delivered, and payment therefor...

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