Lat. Contract; a contract; contracts. Contractus bona fidei. In Roman law. Contracts of good faith. Those contracts which, when brought into litigation, were not determined by the rules of the strict law alone, but allowed the judge to examine into the bona fides of the transaction, and to hear equitable considerations against their enforcement. In this they were opposed to … [Read more...]

A controller. One whose business it was to observe the money which the collectors had gathered for the use of the king or the people. Cowell Contrarotulator pipes. An officer of the exchequer that writeth out summons twice every year, to the sheriffs, to levy the rents and debts of the pipe. Blount. … [Read more...]

A contract is an act as it were against an act … [Read more...]

In French law. Contracts are of the following varieties: (1) Bilateral, or synallagmatique, where each party Is bound to the other to do what is just and proper; or 2) unilateral, where the one side only is bound; or (3) Commutaif where one does to the other something which is supposed to be an equivalent for what the other does to him; or (4) Aleatoire, where the consideration … [Read more...]

Latin, meaning A contract is an act as it were against an act. … [Read more...]