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Contract

for it is made on the spot; executory, where some future act is to be done; as where an agreement is … some act. For numerous other definitions, see Chalmers's Sale of Goods Act, App. II., where it is said that the 'disposition

Payable

word 'payable' may signify an obligation to pay at a future time but when used without qualification in payable at once, … amount payable by the foreign buyer in respect of the goods' occurring in cl. (b) would mean merely the total amount

Insurance

less, contract to pay the bond-holder a sum at a future date, and not being life assurance business as hereinbefore defined. … heading of general average or total loss. Losses where the goods are saved, but in such a state as to be

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Remainder

Act of 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 76) converted future, contingent remainders into executory interests which were not hampered in … the words in italics, then it would have been a good contingent remainder, and the condition would be viewed as surplusage,

Springing use

an executory interest directing property inland to vest at a future period which does not coincide with the termination of a … the settlor until, if ever, the period arrives and a good legal estate was conferred upon A. attaining that age by

Pawn or Pledge

or engagement. It may be delivered as security for a future debt or engagement, as well as for a past debt; … Pawn or Pledge [fr. pignus, Lat.], a bailment of goods by a debtor to his creditor, to be kept till

Hire

The contract may be dissolved or extinguished in respect to future liabilities in various ways: (1) by the mere efflux of … delivered (locatio custodi'). (4) The hiring of the carriage of goods (locatio operis mercium vehendarum) from one place to another. The

Railway

been inserted in every special railway Act to save the future parliamentary revision of the maximum rates and charges, and the … carry and convey upon the railway all such passengers and goods as shall be offered to them for that purpose, and

Undertaking

law, all the assets of the company past present and future, and is a mortgageable interest being commonly charged by the … Means an enterprise engaged in production, sale or control of goods, etc., Carew & Co. Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR

False pretence, obtaining property

fact exists or existed, and that a promise as to future conduct not intended to be kept is not by itself … pretences is of importance in that a person who obtains goods by false pretences can convey a good title to them,

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