 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1829 - 492 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Nathan Dane - 1829 - 982 pages
...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 - 498 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1843 - 530 pages
...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... | |
 | James Kent - 1848 - 1046 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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.... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1866 - 626 pages
...more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact." To give this word its broadest signification, would... | |
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A contract is an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing. The law binds him to perform his undertaking, and this is, of course, the obligation of his contract. 
