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71contract bond — see bond 1a Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
72contract clause — n often cap both Cs: the clause in Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution that prohibits states from passing any laws that render contracts invalid or impair the obligations under them Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster …
73contract — is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable as a noun and on the second syllable as a verb, except that in the phrasal verb contract in (or out) the stress is more variable …
74contract bridge — [kän′trakt΄] n. a form of bridge, developed from auction bridge, in which only the number of tricks named in the contract may be counted toward a game, additional tricks being counted as a bonus score …
75contract a marriage — phrase to agree formally to get married to someone Her marriage was contracted when she was only five years old. Thesaurus: to get, or to be marriedsynonym marital statushyponym Main entry: contract …
76contract an alliance — formal phrase to agree formally to form a close relationship with another country or organization The Labour Party contracted an alliance with the Liberal Democrats. Thesaurus: international agreementshyponym Main entry: contract …
77Contract — Con*tract (k[o^]n*tr[a^]kt ), a. [L. contractus, p. p.] Contracted; affianced; betrothed. [Obs.] Shak. [1913 Webster] …
78Contract system — Con tract sys tem 1. The sweating system. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. The system of employing convicts by selling their labor (to be performed inside the prison) at a fixed price per day to contractors who are allowed to have agents in the prison to …
79Contract [2] — Contract, 1) der an einer Contractur (s.d.) leidet; 2) viereckige Spielmarke …
80Contract — ist ein Vertrag, der seine rechtliche Begründung durch die gegenseitige Einwilligung derer, die ihn schließen, erhält. Man theilt die Contracte verschiedenartig ein; die hauptsächlichsten sind Kauf , Mieth , Schuld , Pfand und andere Contracte. B …
