Contract.
COntract, is a bargaine, or couenant betweene two parties, where one thing is giuen for another which is called, Quid pro
An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set forth & augmented, both in French & English, for the help of such yong students, as are desirous to attaine to the knowledge of the same
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- An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set forth & augmented, both in French & English, for the help of such yong students, as are desirous to attaine to the knowledge of the same
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- Rastell, John, d. 1536.
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- At London :: Printed by th'assignee of Charles Yetsweirt Esq. deceased. Cum priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis,
- 1595.
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- Law -- England -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
- Law -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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"An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure words, and termes of the lawes of this realme, newly set forth & augmented, both in French & English, for the help of such yong students, as are desirous to attaine to the knowledge of the same." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10426.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2025.
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quo, as if I sell my house for money, or if I couenant to make you a lease of my mannor of Dale in consi∣deration of twentie pound that you shal giue me, these are good contractes, be∣cause there is one thing for an other, but if a man make promise to me, that I shall haue twentie shillinges, and that he will bée debtor to mée thereof, and after I aske the twentie shillings, and hée will not deliuer it, yet I shall neuer haue any action to recouer this twē∣tie shillinges, for that that this promise was no con∣tract but a bare promise. And ex nudo pacto non o∣ritur actio, but if any thing were giuen for the twentie shillinges though it were not but to the value of a pe∣ny, then it had béene a good contract.