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See adhesion contract. A contract where the onerous terms are included and where the purchaser is in a position of weakness and unable to fairly negotiate the terms. The unfair terms are bound to the contract. … [Read more...] about CONTRACT OF ADHESION

One recurring at repeated intervals so as to be of repeated occurrence; not necessarily an injury that never ceases. … [Read more...] about CONTINUOUS INJURY

Civil law. One which is made for the benefit of only one of the contracting parties; such as loan for use, deposit, and mandate. … [Read more...] about CONTRACT OF BENEVOLENCE

Against, confronting, opposite to; on the other hand; on the contrary. The word is used in many Latin phrases, as appears by the following titles. In the books of reports, contra, appended to the name of a judge or counsel, indicates that he held a view of the matter in argument contrary to that next before advanced. Also, after citation of cases in support of a position, … [Read more...] about CONTRA

A contract by which one of the contracting parties called the "seller" enters into an obligation to the other to cause him to have freely by a title of proprietor a thing for the price of a certain sum of money which the other contracting party called the "buyer" on his part obliges himself to pay. Poth. Cont.; Civ. Code La. 1000 art. 21.10; White v. Treat (C. C.) 100 Fed. 201; … [Read more...] about CONTRACT OF SALE