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Definition of Contract law
1. Noun. That branch of jurisprudence that studies the rights and obligations of parties entering into contracts.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contract Law
Literary usage of Contract law
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1920)
"Applicability of general principles of contract law. Except where modified by
specific statutory provisions contracts entered into by the United States are ..."
2. The Foundations of Legal Liability: A Presentation of the Theory and by Thomas Atkins Street (1906)
"E now come to consider that stage in the evolution Chapter of contract law which
follows the recognition of the real contract. If progress be made along ..."
3. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1920)
"History of penalty in contract law. At common law, a contract to pay a specified
sum of money upon the happening: of a certain event, was enforced according ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Bailments: Including Carriers, Innkeepers and Pledge by James Schouler (1897)
"Bailment relates to Personal Property; whether a Branch of contract law. — Inasmuch
as bailment operates in rem, there is much reason for pronouncing this ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Bailments: Including Carriers, Innkeepers, and Pledge by James Schouler (1887)
"Bailment relates to Personal Property; whether a Branch of contract law. — Inasmuch
as bailment pushes out its feelers in rein, there is much reason for ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"Alfred Johnson was convicted, of violating the labor contract law, ... 90) commonly
known as the "labor contract law," and, his motion for a new trial being ..."