CONTRACTUS ES QUASI ACTUS CONTRA ACTUM

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A contract is an act as it were against an act

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CONTRACTUS EST QUASI ACTUS CONTRA ACTUM Latin, meaning A contract is an act as it were against an act.
CONTRACTUS Lat. Contract; a contract; contracts. Contractus bona fidei. In Roman law. Contracts of good faith.…
QUASI Latin: As if; as it were; analogous to. This term is used in legal phraseology…
LOCUS CONTRACTUS The place of the contract. In general, the law of the place where the contract…
EIRENARCHA A name formerly given to a justice of the peace. In the Digests, the word…
LEX LOCI CONTRACTUS contracts. The law of the place where an agreement is made. 2. Generally, the validity…
IN STATU QUO In the same situation; in the same place; as, between the time of the submission…
EX QUASI CONTRACTU From quasi contract. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 60.

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