Evidence relevant and admissible in court. … [Read more...]

civil law. A quasi contract, by which he who receives a certain sum of money, or a certain quantity of fungible things, which have been paid to him through mistake, contracts towards the payer the obligation of returning him as much. Poth. De l'Usure, 3eme part. s. 1, a. 1. 2. This contract is called promutuum, because it has much resemblance to that of mutuum. This resemblance … [Read more...]

A person or party who has an interest in the subject matter of a lawsuit (affected by the outcome) and is eligible to join a lawsuit or may also be joined into a lawsuit by another current party to the lawsuit. … [Read more...]

An agreement between parties where a party borrowing money agrees to pay. In an agreement the promise of one party to pay the other a sum of money. … [Read more...]

A person to whom a promise has been made. 2. In general a promisee can maintain an action on a promise made to him, but when the consideration moves not from the promisee, but some other person, the latter, and not the promisee, has a cause of action, because he is the person for whose use the contract was made. … [Read more...]