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Common terms and phrases
A.'s promise acceptance actual agreed agreement amount apply assignment assumpsit B.'s obligation benefit bifactoral Bigelow bilateral contract binding bound breach of contract Brown champerty charter-party chose in action common law condition precedent consideration constitute construed contract is voidable contract.¹ contracts tending contractual obligation court of equity covenant creditor debt debtor deed defendant defendant's delivery discharge doctrine duress effect enforce entitled Ewell's L. C. executed existence external condition subsequent fact given held Ibid illegal imposed infant instrument intention land Langdell Law Rev liability Mass ment Minn mistake negotiable instrument obligation to pay offer Ohio St payment performance person plaintiff principle promise to pay promisor Quasi-Contracts question reason regard rendered representation rescind rescission right of action rule seal seems sell sideration simple contract Smith Statute of Frauds subrogation sufficient supra third party tion tract treated unilateral validity vendee vendor void voidable
Popular passages
Page 200 - ... or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof; unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith...
Page 193 - ... or to charge any person upon any agreement made upon consideration of marriage ; or upon any contract or sale of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them ; or upon any agreement that is not to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof...
Page 217 - that where one person makes a promise to another for the benefit of a third person, that third person may maintain an action upon it.
Page 94 - Where the circumstances are such that it must have been within the contemplation of the parties that, according to the ordinary usages of mankind, the post might be used as a means of communicating the acceptance of an offer, the acceptance is complete as soon as it is posted.
Page 2 - ... that every man hath engaged to perform what his duty or justice requires.
Page 193 - That no action shall be brought whereby to charge any executor or administrator upon any special promise to answer damages out of his own estate; or whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default or miscarriage of another person...
Page 176 - But where the event is of such a character that it cannot reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of the contracting parties when the contract was made, they will not be held bound by general words which, though large enough to include, were not useJ with reference to the possibility of the particular contingency •which afterwards happens.
Page 194 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment, or that some note or memorandum in writing of the said bargain be made and signed by the parties to be charged by such contract, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorized.
Page 194 - June no contract for the sale of any goods, wares and merchandizes, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part of payment, or that some note or memorandum in writing of the said bargain be made and signed by the parties to be charged by such contract, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorized.
Page 270 - The length of time during which the party neglects the assertion of his rights, which must pass in order to show laches, varies with the peculiar circumstances of each case, and is not, like the matter of limitations, subject to an arbitrary rule. It is an equitable defense...