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Pre-contract

Pre-contract. Where one of the parties to a marriage was under … marry a third person, such prior agreement was called a pre-contract. It was a canonical impediment to the marriage of either

Deposit pre-contract

Deposit pre-contract, means any sum paid by any person as an earnest

Clients' money

Clients' money, means any contract or pre-contract deposit received by an estate agent in the course of

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Separate estate

woman. A wife's separate property might be acquired by a pre-nuptial contract with her husband, or by gift, either from the

Acceptance of goods

any act in relation to the goods which recognizes a pre-existing contract of sale whether there be an acceptance in performance

Collateral

any matter allowed by law, in bar of execution, as pregnancy, pardon, an act of grace, or diversity of person, viz., … or pledge deposited to secure a pre-existing debt; and collateral contract, where a contract by word of mouth co-exists [see e.g.,

condition

implied in law : constructive condition in this entry condition precedent [-pri-sēd-nt, -pre-sə-dənt] : a condition that must be fulfilled before … of a party under a legal instrument and esp. a contract ;also : a clause in the instrument describing the act

Frustration

Frustration. The unforeseen determination or pre-vention of a contract by reason of the destruction of the

contract

parties and that is usually embodied in a standardized form prepared by the dominant party contract under seal : a contract

Contract

the cost of the goods, the freight and the insurance premium for the transit, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para … Contract, an agreement between competent parties, to do or to abstain

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