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Convulse

To contract violently and irregulary as the muscular parts of an animal body to shake with irregular spasms as in

Enrheum

To contract a rheum

Frown

To contract the brow in displeasure severity or sternness to scowl to put on a stern grim or surly look

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Salary or wages

Officer, AIR 1981 SC 905: (1981) 2 SCC 147: (1981) 2 SCR 738. Sale, embraces not only completed contract, but also the contract of sale or agreement of sale if such contract of sale or agreement of … of the employee under any law for the time being in force. (vi) any retrenchment compensation or any gratuity or other retirement benefit payable to the employee or any ex gratia payment made to him; (vii) any

breach

without any negligence or misconduct. b : failure without excuse or justification to fulfill one's obligations under a contract called also breach of contract compare repudiation an·tic·i·pa·to·ry breach : a breach of contract that occurs as a

Impossibility

Impossibility. If a man contract to do a thing which is absolutely impossible by its nature, such contract will not bind him--lex non

Sale of Goods Act, 1893

it is provided, amongst other things, that an infant or person by mental incapacity or drunkenness incompetent to contract must pay a reasonable price for 'necessaries' sold and delivered to him; that (re-enacting a part of the

Tort

Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions

Specific performance

lawfully agreed to be done ought to be done, and that damages at law for breach of the contract are not a sufficient com-pensation. The Common Law has not recognized this principle; it has only given damages

Warranty

RECOVERY. More generally, a warranty is any agreement either accompanying a transfer of property, or collateral to the contract for such transfer, see Lawrence v. Cassell, (1930) 2 KB 83, and Miller v. Cannon Hill Estates Ltd.,

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