 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1829 - 492 σελίδες
...contract, and the means to enforce it was clearly settled. " A contract" says Chief Justice Marshall, " is an agreement in which a party undertakes to do or not to do a particular thing. The law hinds him to perform his undertaking, and this is, of course, the obligation of his contract." " The... | |
 | 1819 - 660 σελίδες
...framers of the constitution when they used the terms "any lirwim/iiiiriiiif the obligation of contracts," it would seem difficult to substitute words which...more intelligible, or less liable to misconstruction. A contract is an agreement in which a party undertakes to do or not to do a particular thing. The law... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1827 - 682 σελίδες
...contracts without obligation, and many obligations without contracts. •' A contract is defined to be, an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing." Stvr- 1827. gtt v. Crowninshield, (4 Wheat. Rep. 197.) This definition is sufficient... | |
 | 1843 - 498 σελίδες
...books, is that given by the late chief justice Marshall, in the case of Sturges v. Crowninshield : ' " A contract is an agreement, in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing." * Blackstone's definition is — " an agreement, upon sufficient consideration,... | |
 | Nathan Dane - 1829 - 982 σελίδες
...perform his engagement.' P. 302, Thompson, J. noticed the court in Sturges v. Crowningshield, said, ' a contract is an agreement in which a party undertakes to do or not to do a particular act. The Jaw binds him to perform his undertaking, and this is of course the obligation... | |
 | 1843 - 530 σελίδες
...the United States, in a case arising on this constitutional prohibition, defined a contract to be " an agreement in which a party undertakes to do or not to do a particular thing." And the decisions, which will presently be cited, have settled the point, that contracts... | |
 | Maryland - 1831 - 256 σελίδες
...contracts without obligation, and many obligations without contracts. "A contract is defined to be, an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing." Sturges v. Crowninshield, (4 Wheat. Rep. 197.) This definition is sufficient for... | |
 | James Kent - 1848 - 1046 σελίδες
...same with that in Pothier, Traite des Otlig. No. 3. A contract, says Ch. J. Marshall, 4 Wheaton,\$l , is an agreement in which a party undertakes to do or not to do, a particular thing. AD able writer on contracts, in the [American either under seal or not under seal.... | |
 | James Kent - 1858 - 966 σελίδες
...same with that in Pothier, Traite" des Oblig. No. 3. A contract, says Ch. J. Marshall, 4 Wheaton, 197, is an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing. An able writer on contracts, in the American Jurist (vol. xx.) for October, 1838,... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - 1859 - 736 σελίδες
...more person?, upon sufficient consideration, to do or not to do a particular thing. 2 Kent s Com. 449. An agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do a particular thing. Marshal], CJ 4 Wheatoría JR. 122, 197. A compact between two or more parties. Id.... | |
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A contract is an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do a particular thing. 
