 | Thomas Reid - 1788 - 518 páginas
...the preftation promifed. But we give the name of a contract to a tranfaction in which each CHAP, vi. party comes under an obligation to the other, and...acquires a right to what is promifed by the other. The Latin word paffum feems to extend to both ; and the definition given of it in the Civil Law, and borrowed... | |
 | Zephaniah Swift - 1795 - 990 páginas
...confideration, to do, or not to do a particular tiling, g A contract may be defcribcd, to be a traufaction in which, each party comes under an obligation to the other, and eacli reciprocally acquires a right to what is promifed by the other. In this delinition and defcription,... | |
 | Esq. John Kells - 1797 - 530 páginas
...bail; 3. of hiring or borrowing ; 4. of debt. 2 Black. Cm. Page 442 1. A contract is a tranfaAion, in which each party comes under an obligation to the other, and each reciprocally acquire a right to what is promifed by the other. Powell on Contracts. 6 3. All conditions repugnant... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1803 - 734 páginas
...other acquires & right to the preftation promifed. But we give the name of a contract to a tranfaction in which each party comes under an obligation to the...acquires a right to what is promifed by the other. The Latin word pattum feems to extend to both ; and the definition given of it in the Civil Law, and borrowed... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1822 - 322 páginas
...other acquires a right to the prestation promised. But we give the name of a contract to a transaction in which each party comes under an obligation to the...and each reciprocally acquires a right to what is promised by the other. The Latin vrordpactum seems to extend to both ; and the definition given of... | |
 | Nathan Dane - 1823 - 722 páginas
...contract executed. Mr. Powell thinks a contract is best defined thus, " a contract is a transaction in which each party comes under an obligation to the...and each, reciprocally, acquires a right to what is promised by the other." After all, we can properly understand what a contract is, but by seeing its... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 620 páginas
...differs from a promise, in its being the mutual and voluntary engagement of two parties, in which each comes under an obligation to the other, and each reciprocally acquires a right to what is promised by the other. The observations made in the former chapter, as to the sense in which a promise... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 692 páginas
...differs from a promise, in its being the mutual and voluntary engagement of two parties, in which each comes under an obligation to the other, and each reciprocally acquires a right to what is promised by the other. The observations made in the former chapter, as to the sense in which a promise... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 páginas
...other acquires a right to the prestation promised. But we give the name of a contract to a transaction in which each party comes under an obligation to the...and each reciprocally acquires a right to what is promised by the other. The Latin word pactum seems to extend to both ; and the definition given of... | |
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Powell states a contract to be a transaction in which each party comes under an obligation to the other, and each reciprocally acquires a right to what is promised by the other. 
