 | 1911 - 446 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." This we may term a legal or technical definition... | |
 | Charles Erehart Chadman - 1912 - 676 pages
...contract is an agreement, upon sufficient consideration, to do a particular thing." (2 BI. Com. 446.) "A contract is an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing." (Marshall, CJ, in Sturges v. Crowningshield, 4 Wheat. 197.) "An agreement enforceable... | |
 | John Marshall - 1914 - 380 pages
...the term obligation of contracts. This was given in Sturges v. Crowninshield,41 in which he said : "It would seem difficult to substitute words which...or less liable to misconstruction, than those which v are to be explained. A contract is an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do,... | |
 | Edwin Charles Goddard - 1914 - 916 pages
...of the transaction? The point of inquiry is, when and where was the contract of sale entered into ? "A contract is an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing." Sturges v. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat. 197, 4 L. Ed. 529. A contract does not become... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - 1914 - 550 pages
..." Danbury Hatters' and other cases." >P. 564. Chief Justice Marshall denned a contract as follows: "A contract is an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing." Sturges v. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat. 122 (1819). This is simple and clear, but for... | |
 | Charles Hallan McCarthy - 1914 - 260 pages
...obligation of contracts, the citizen has no redress. A contract, as defined by Chief Justice Marshall, is "an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing." Contracts may be express or Contract implied. When the parties state definitely... | |
 | Eugene Wambaugh - 1915 - 1106 pages
.... It would set-in difficult to substitute words which are more in/'• a telligible, or 'ess "able to misconstruction, than those which are to be explained. A contract is an agreement in which a party undertflkes to do, or not to do, a particular thing. The law binds him to ' - perform. his undertaking,... | |
 | William Pinckney Fishback, Arnold Bennett Hall - 1915 - 576 pages
...Justice Marshall, as it is given in Sturges v. Crowningshield, 4 Wheat. (US1) 197. It is in these words : "A contract is an agreement in which a party undertakes to do or not to do a particular thing." In this definition the element of consideration is omitted. The efforts to improve... | |
 | Daniel Webster Mead - 1916 - 564 pages
...is most frequently interested is the express executory contract, which has been denned as follows: "A contract is an agreement in which a party undertakes to do or not to do a particular thing. "—CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL, 4 Wheaton (NC) 122, et seq. "Contract is that form of... | |
 | Hannis Taylor - 1917 - 1038 pages
...4 Wheat. 122, Marshall, CJ, said: "What is the obligation of a contract? and what will impair it I It would seem difficult to substitute words which...explained. A contract is an agreement in which a party undertook to do, or not to do, a particular thing. The law binds him to perform his undertaking, and... | |
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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. 
