 | D. H. Mason - 1846 - 56 էջ
...there was a covenant of works made with Adam, for himself and his posterity. A covenant is a solemn agreement, between two or more parties, to do, or not to do, or to cause something to be done; as there is no account of such an agreement made with Adam ; and... | |
 | William B. Wedgwood - 1866 - 492 էջ
...again, but prohibits the guilty party from marrying again. CHAPTER XLVI. CONTRACTS. 1. A CONTRACT is an agreement between two or more parties to do, or not to do, some act. Contracts are special or simple. Special contracts are contracts of record, or contracts... | |
 | Frank Gilbert - 1873 - 354 էջ
...not to do a particular thing." l His successor, Chief Justice TANEY, explained a contract to be "an agreement between two or more parties to do or not to do a particular thing." 3 Parsons, in his work on contract, calls it, " an agreement between two or more... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875 - 858 էջ
...to do or not to do a particular thing. MARSHALL, CJ, Sturges v. Crowniruhield, 4 Wheat. (US) 197. An s aforesaid to burn, maim, disfigure, or disable, or to do particular thing. TANEY, CJ, Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 11 Pet. (Ü. 8.) 430, 572. A. compact... | |
 | 1880 - 892 էջ
...the principles on which contracts in general are founded, see CONSENT. CONTRACT (CONSENT, ante), an agreement between two or more parties to do or not to do a particular thing. There are several varieties of contract besides the ordinary agreement which almost... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - 1887 - 750 էջ
...to be done or omitted.'— (2 Black.Com., 441.) As defined byAmerican authorities, a contract is an agreement between two or more parties to do or not to do a particular thing (Tauey, (Jh. J., 11 Pet., 420, 572) ; an agreement in which a party undertakes to... | |
 | 1890 - 988 էջ
...of the principles on which contracts in general are founded, see CONSENT. CONTRACT (See CONSENT), an agreement between two or more parties to do or not to do a particular thing. There are several varieties of contract besides the ordinary agreement which almost... | |
 | Washington (State). Supreme Court, Eugene Genroy Kreider - 1894 - 806 էջ
...accepted definite— 8 WASH. Opinion of the Court — DDNBAR, CJ [8 Wash. tion of a contract is an agreement between two or more parties to do or not to do a particular thing. This case does not fall within this or any other definition of a contract. It would... | |
 | W. E. Stipp - 1894 - 216 էջ
...chapters as subordinate to, or growing out of, this one. 7. Definition of Contract. — A contract is an agreement between two or more parties to do or not to do a certain thing. 8. Essential Elements. — The essential elements of a contract are PARTIES, CONSIDERATION,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 960 էջ
...of the principles on which contracts in general are founded, see CONSENT. CONTRACT (see CONSENT), an agreement between two or more parties to do or not to do a particular thing. There are several varieties of contract besides the ordinary agreement which almost... | |
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... an agreement between two or more parties to do or not to do a certain thing (Sturges v. 
