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Contract , contract, in law, a promise, enforceable by law, to perform or to refrain from performing some specified act. In a general sense, all civil obligatio… Statute Of Frauds , A type of state law, modeled after an oldenglish law, that requires certain types of contracts to be in writing.
U.S. law has adopted a 1677 English… Modification , A change or alteration in existing materials.
Modification generally has the same meaning in the law as it does in common parlance. The term has spec… Contraction , contraction •ashen, fashion, passion, ration •abstraction, action, attraction, benefaction, compaction, contraction, counteraction, diffraction, enac… systole , systole •biyearly, really, yearly •Beardsley • lawyerly • immediately •hourly • cowardly • surely • marbly •pebbly •neighbourly (US neighborly) •drib… Arbitration , The submission of a dispute to an unbiased third person designated by the parties to the controversy, who agree in advance to comply with the award—a…
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