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informal contract

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Service

electrical or other energy, boarding or lodging or both, entertainment, amusement or the purveying of news or other information, but does not include the rendering of any service free of charge or under a contract of personal

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Bought and Sold Notes

have succeeded in making a contract to make any entry in their books save for their own private information, and it is now almost the universal practice to regard the bought and sold notes as the proper

lease

statement of terms (as warranties, disclaimers, and liquidated damages) relating to the contract or notification of where such information can be obtained. ground lease : a lease of land usually for a long term in consideration of

Libel

sense of duty if such information is injurious to the character of another. The mere fact of a contract to supply information does not create such a duty or common interest that communications made in fulfilment of … a servant, or commenting upon a matter of general interest to the public. No privilege, however, attaches to information supplied by a trade protection society to its customers for the purposes of profit and not from sense

Reward

and 77, and Sch. II.; and see BRIBE. Action for Reward.--An offer for reward for information is a contract to pay the reward to the first person giving it and to him only, his motive being immaterial, … of value, usu. money, given in return for some service or achievement, such as recovering property, or providing information that leads to capture of a criminal, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1321. By the (English) Criminal

disaffirm

disaffirm : cancel rescind used esp. of a contract made by a minor dis·af·fir·mance [di-sə-fər-məns] n dis·af·fir·ma·tion [dis-a-fər-mā-shən] n

knowledge

[denied having had superior knowledge of the hazard] [superior knowledge of a factor in the performance of a contract] 2 : the range of one's information, understanding, or expertise [answered to the best of his ] … had actual knowledge that the name and account number referred to different persons] 2 : awareness of such information as would cause a reasonable person to inquire further ; specif : such awareness considered as a timely

Fieri feci

If a man transferred his property to another, on condition that it should be restored to him, this contract was called fiducia, and the person to whom the property was so transferred was said fiduciam accipere, Cic.

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