Sound In Contract :Sound In Contract. N. For a lawsuit to appear to be an action related to a contract, although it was brought as an action in tort.
Statute Of Frauds :Statute Of Frauds.. N. A statute requiring that certain kinds of contracts be written in order to be enforced, common under English law and now codified in the Uniform Commercial Code.
Substantive Law :Substantive Law. N. The part of law that defines rights and duties rather than procedural methods of enforcing those rights, i.e., the law of contract, tort, property, trusts and estates, etc., as opposed to civil procedure.
Yellow Dog Contract :Yellow Dog Contract. N. An employment contract that threatens to fire an employee if he or she joins a labor union, prohibited under most laws and unenforceable in court.
Operation Of Law :Operation Of Law. N. The automatic effects of law; used in situations when the rights or liabilities of parties are determined by application of law, and not through their own private agreements. operative. ADJ. Most relevant, meaningful, or significant; describes the word or words that carry the most important meaning in a [...]
Quasi Contract :Quasi Contract. N. An obligation similar to a contract imposed by the law when two parties have made no promises to one another but when one party has benefited from services provided by another in such a way that the benefited party would be unjustly enriched if the court did not find the [...]
Ratify :Ratify. V. To approve, affirm, or confirm something, such as a law or contract; to make something valid. N. ratification.
Restatement :Restatement. N. One of a series of treatises on particular areas of law (such as contracts or torts) published by the American Law Institute, intended to show the current state of the law and likely developments in the future.
Revive :Revive. V. To bring back to life; to make effective again; to restore a will, contract, or law to validity. N. revival.
Contract :Contract. N. An agreement between two or more parties that is enforceable by law; a transaction between two or more people in which one or both promise to perform some duty in exchange for consideration, and if a party fails to do what he or she promised, the law allows the other party to [...]