Sentence examples for constituted a contract from inspiring English sources

The water company, as we have seen, insists that the agreement of 1882 constituted a contract, whereby it acquired, for a given period, an exclusive right, by means of pipes laid in the public ways and a system of works established for that purpose, to supply water for the use of the city and its inhabitants.

A lengthy letter reviewed in this litigation stated that the heirs have "accepted DC Comics offer....".. 2. Oral statements related to a letter may additionally affirm that it constituted a contract.

In doing to, it ignored the well-established legal doctrine that once a state gave a corporation a privilege it constituted a contract that must be honored but also that the specific privileges granted came with its charter and did not extend beyond it.

And then furthermore Anderson always told me 'I am good for my word.'" If this constitutes a contract, what were the terms?

As an ethical and (as I, a nonlawyer, understand it) a legal matter, the oral agreement you and she made constitutes a contract, albeit unwritten.

Upon such approval, the agreement shall constitute a contract between the Council and the applicant pledging the full faith and credit of the United States to pay any amount for which the Council becomes liable under such agreement.

The appellant insists that the exemption granted in the Acts of 1903 and 1919 constitutes a contract with purchasers of municipal securities the obligation of which is unconstitutionally impaired by the attempt to tax the interest they yield.

In that opinion, however, after referring to the stipulation, the court proceeded to observe that the charter of the district, as a public corporation, did not constitute a contract with its members that the laws it was created to administer would not be changed.

Neither their charters, nor any law conferring governmental powers, or vesting in them property to be used for governmental purposes, or authorizing them to hold or manage such property, or exempting them from taxation upon it, constitutes a contract with the state within the meaning of the Federal Constitution.

That constitutes a contract.

The majority opinion rejected arguments based upon federal securities laws, and the company's code of ethics and employment handbook (that also indicated that it did not constitute a contract).