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deposit

purchase price or may be considered partial payment. 3 in the civil law of Louisiana a : the gratuitous transfer of possession of movable property to another for a limited time or specified purpose such that the … may be express or implied, and because of the requirements of consent, only persons with the capacity to contract can make a voluntary deposit. b : the movable property that is the object of a deposit [the

Gift

no doubt that it has been used in that Act in the same sense as in the Indian Contract Act and excludes natural love and affection, Shakuntala v. State of Haryana, AIR 1979 SC 843 (844): (1979) … without pecuniary consideration. A voluntary conveyance of land, or transfer of goods, from one person to another, made gratuitously, and to upon any consideration of blood or money. A similar definition has been given in WEBSTER'S THIRD

Precarium

him the thing to use as long as the owner shall please. This was dis-tinguished from an ordinary gratuitous loan, and in the Roman Law gave rise to different obligations on the part of the borrower, See … Precarium, a contract by which the owner of a thing, at another's request, gives him the thing to use as long

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promise

that is made with no intention of carrying it out and esp. with intent to deceive or defraud gratuitous promise : a promise that is made without consideration and is usually unenforceable called also naked promise compare … promise : a declaration or manifestation esp. in a contract of an intention to act or refrain from acting in a specified way that gives the party to

Restrictive Covenant

Restrictive Covenant, defined by the Land Charges Act 1925, s. 10, Class D (ii.), as a covenant or agreement (not being made between lessor and lessee), restrictive of the user of the land, and see s. 20

covenant not to compete

covenant not to compete : a covenant in an agreement (as for the sale of a business) by which one party agrees not to engage in the same

pact

An agreement a league a compact a covenant

The agreement

The agreement, 'The agreement' occurring in the phrase must mean the agreement with a foreign buyer and not the agreement

Concordat

A compact covenant or agreement concerning anything

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An agreement a covenant a promise

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