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Contracts

Contracts of all sorts.

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Contracts

Executed agreement

Law; Contracts

Properly signed agreement that requires no additional steps for its execution.

Executed contract

Law; Contracts

1. A contract document signed by all parties to it. 2. A contract performed fully as stipulated in the contract document.

Doctrine of scrivener's error

Law; Contracts

Legal principle that a map-drafting or typographical error in a written contract may be corrected by oral evidence if the evidence is clear, convincing, and precise. If such correction (called ...

Down selection

Law; Contracts

Reduction in the number of contractors or sub-contractors working on a project, as it moves from one phase to another, in accordance with the criteria established usually in the request for proposal ...

Draught request for proposals

Law; Contracts

Preliminary version of a request for proposals (RFP) that is sent out to qualified contractors for their comments or recommendations that may be added to or deleted from the final RFP.

Dual contract

Law; Contracts

A situation in which two contracts with differing terms are simultaneously submitted on a single transaction for the purpose of securing a loan. The practise is deemed to be unethical, and, in most ...

Donee beneficiary

Law; Contracts

An individual who will receive some sort of contract related benefit even though that person was not considered to be an actual party in that contract.

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