Gratuitous Contract - Law Dictionary Search Results
performance
done in employment [unsatisfactory ] 2 a : what is required to be performed in fulfillment of a contract, promise, or obligation [substituted a new in novation of the contract] b : the fulfillment of a contract,
Bailment
Bailment [fr. bailler, Fr., to deliver], a compendious expression to signify a contract resulting from delivery; perhaps best defined as a 'delivery of a thing in trust for some special object
Goods
in the Sale of Goods Act, sale of timber agreed to be severed under the terms of the contract may be regarded as sale of goods, State of Maharashtra v. Champalal Kishanlal Mohota, AIR 1971 SC 908:
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Representation
by words or by conduct -- made to induce some one to act esp. to enter into a contract, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1303. Any indication by words, letters, signs or conduct by one person
mistake
: a state of mind that is not in accordance with the facts existing at the time a contract is made and that may be a ground for the rescission or reformation of the contract b :
Hire
head of hire of labour and services. The rights, duties, and obligations of the parties resulting from the contract of bailment for hire may be thus stated:- (I.) Hire of things. The letting to hire implies an
Measure of damage
which determines the amount of damages to the given. The general rule in English law is that in contract the measure of damage is the actual loss to the plaintiff, and in tort the compensation to the
Pawn or Pledge
it to the person who succeeds to the ownership. See FACTOR. It is of the essence of the contract that there should be an actual delivery of the thing to the pledgee; for until delivery, the whole
Rescission
Rescission, annulment or destruction. A general term for the repudiation and annulment of any contract or transaction: see (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893. A contract for the sale of real estate very
Earnest
the same words, the 17th section of the Statute of Frauds, 29 Car. 2, c. 3, that 'a contract for the sale of any goods, for the price of 10l. or upwards, shall not be enforceable by
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