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Definition of Promisees
1. promisee [n] - See also: promisee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Promisees
Literary usage of Promisees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of the Law of Contract: With a Chapter on the Law of Agency by William Reynell Anson, Arthur Linton Corbin (1919)
"The promisees must be either joint or several, they cannot be joint and ...
if construed to be several a joinder of the promisees is improper.4 When the ..."
2. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1920)
"In the absence of statute the interest of the promisees can not be made joint
and several at the same time by any form of words.1 Such a contract creates a ..."
3. Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in Its Relation to by William Reynell Anson (1906)
"All surviving joint promisees must join in the action.' If one dies the right of
action is in the ... The promisees must be either joint or several, ..."
4. Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in Its Relation to by William Reynell Anson (1906)
"All surviving joint promisees must join in the action.t If one dies the right of
... The promisees must be either joint or several, they cannot be joint and ..."
5. Trial Evidence: The Rules of Evidence Applicable on the Trial of Civil by Austin Abbott (1880)
"... to show that he was merely their surety ;—and in all cases they are rendered
incompetent by evidence of fraud. 7. —joint promisees. ..."
6. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore (1921)
"... first case is the normal case of one promisor and one promisee and does not
concern this inquiry. The second case has one promisor and two promisees. ..."
7. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1899)
"... between the promisees themselves, their interests are several.1 So where the
language shows a clear intent to make a several promise, the contract will ..."
8. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1919)
"Consideration moving from one of two or more promisees. Contracts in which the
consideration is furnished to the promisor by one of the adversary parties, ..."
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