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special contract

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stipulated time, the title becomes absolute at law although equity allows a redemption. But in a pledge, a special property only passes to the pledgee, the general property remaining in the pledgor. Also, in the case of … 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

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Consideration

impossible consideration. A contract may be illegal because it contravenes the principles of the Common Law, or the special requirements of a statute. The former illegality exists whenever the consideration is founded upon a transaction which violates

Bailment

a contract resulting from delivery; perhaps best defined as a 'delivery of a thing in trust for some special object or person, and upon a contract express or implied, to conform to the object or purpose of

Lien

sound only in damages, and can be ascertained only through the intervention of a jury, unless, indeed, a special contract exists. The debt or demand for which the lien is asserted must be due to the person claiming

Mahr (dower)

the reason, a marriage is also valid, although the man were to engage in the contract on the special condition that there should be no dower (mahr). (Hamilton's Hedaya by Grady, p. 44). Even after the marriage

Debt

(English) Administration of Estates Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 46) (popularly known as 'Hinde Palmer's Act'), special contract debts, as by bonds, covenants, and other instruments under seal, took priority over debts by simple contract; but