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Definition of Contractors
1. contractor [n] - See also: contractor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contractors
Literary usage of Contractors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by Great Britain (1850)
"The Low state of employment of contractors (butties) is, however, so general,
and so education firmly fixed in the traditions and habits of the county, ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"It was evidently drawn more for the benefit of the contractors than for the
interest of the Company. The extent, value and accessibility of the coal ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"(103 SE) bond company assumed was not confined In time and place to the performance
of a single act by the contractors, as Is commonly the case with strict ..."
4. The Law Reports by James Redfoord Bulwer (1872)
"And that the i Clause that the contractors should pre- > rve the draining pipe*
on the land so that i : simo might be afterwards used. ..."
5. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1867)
"In this view, and I have no doubt of its soundness, the second mortgage, as a
legal security to the contractors for any sum due them (and it is of no ..."
6. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs, in Civil by Thomas Starkie (1891)
"And see in general as to the effect of acknowledgments by joint-contractors,
infra, 069. A note having been given by the defendants as overseers, ..."
7. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"The general contractors will provide all labor and materials not included in this
contract in such manner as not to delay the material progress of the work, ..."
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