A Summary of the Law of ContractsLittle, Brown,, 1880 - 277 pàgines |
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Pàgina 184 - The dependence or independence of covenants is to be collected from the evident sense and meaning of the parties, and however transposed they may be in the deed, their precedency must depend on the order of time in which the intent of the transaction requires their performance.
Pàgina 64 - All contracts are by the laws of England distinguished into agreements by specialty, and agreements by parol; nor is there any such third class as some of the counsel have endeavoured to maintain, as contracts in writing. If they be merely written and not specialties, they are parol, and a consideration must be proved.
Pàgina 11 - The defendants must be considered in law as making, during every instant of the time their letter was travelling, the same identical offer to the plaintiffs, and then the contract is completed by the acceptance of it by the latter.
Pàgina 4 - It does not follow that an offer becomes a promise because it is accepted; it may be, and frequently is, conditional, and then it does not become a promise until the conditions are satisfied; and in case of offers for a consideration, the performance of the consideration is always deemed a condition.
Pàgina 40 - How then shall it be ascertained to whom the language of such a clause is to he imputed? If the contract be clearly unilateral (eg, a policy of insurance), of course the answer to this question admits of no doubt. In such a contract only one party speaks, and that is the covenantor or promisor. Any clause, therefore, in a policy of insurance, requiring any act to be done by the insured, will be a condition of the covenant or promise of insurance, though its language may more naturally import a covenant...
Pàgina 241 - ... remain open for a specified time, the first question is whether such stipulation constitutes a binding contract. * * * When such a stipulation is binding, the further question arises, whether it makes the offer irrevocable. It has been a common opinion that it does, but that is clearly a mistake. * * * An offer is merely one of the elements of a contract ; and it is indispensable to the making of a contract that the wills of the contracting parties do, in legal contemplation, concur at the moment...
Pàgina 2 - though the acceptance of an offer and the performance of the consideration are different things, and though the former does not imply the latter, yet the latter does necessarily imply the former ; and as the want of either is fatal to the promise, the question whether an offer has been accepted can never in strictness become material in those cases in which a consideration is necessary ; and for all practical purposes it may be said that the offer is accepted in such cases by giving or performing...
Pàgina 233 - Though an excuse for not performing a condition is for some purposes equivalent to performance, yet it is not the same thing, and therefore in pleading, performance must never be averred by a party who relies upon an excuse for not performing, but he must state his excuses": Coke on Littleton, 304; Langdell on Contracts, sec.
Pàgina 123 - The reason why such a transfer of title takes place is obvious. The object of borrowing is to have the use of the thing borrowed; but the use of things which consist in number, weight, or measure commonly consumes them ; and this use, of course, the borrower cannot have unless he owns the things used. When such things are lent, therefore, it is presumed to be the intention of both parties, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the borrower shall acquire the title to them. But why then...
Pàgina 24 - Contracts (page 24) it is stated that the correct view is ' ' that the seller makes the offer when the article is put up, namely, to sell it to the highest bidder, and that, when a bid is made, there is an actual sale, subject to the condition that no one else shall bid higher": See note to Tillman v.