"contractual relation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when discussing a legally binding agreement between two or more parties. For example: "The two companies have a contractual relation that could be dissolved if one violates the terms of the agreement."
There is no contractual relation between the railroad carrier and the ocean carrier.
(c) interfering with the other's acquiring a contractual relation with a third person.
Contract labour, the labour of workers whose freedom is restricted by the terms of a contractual relation and by laws that make such arrangements permissible and enforceable.
His strategy must be to show that, although states might not intervene in the contractual relation between employer and employee, the state government did have, under its police power, the right to protect the health and safety of its citizens.
Critical to the court's ruling was its conclusion that "[e]xceptions to that general rule such as ownership of the bridge, physical injury or direct damages to the claimant's property or person, or a direct contractual relation with the alleged wrongdoer [we]re not factually present here". Id.
35 Of course, the mere fact that a contractual relation, that of suretyship, was created between the Fidelity Company and the United States, was not in and of itself sufficient to relieve the company of the burden of paying a local tax for the privilege of doing business with its customers.
For Macneil the relational norms are important in all contractual relations, including within the private sector.
The lawsuit's specific charges include defamation, trade libel and intentional interference with contractual relations.
He said the company might specifically accuse the union with tortious interference of contractual relations.
"And there are some substantial contractual relations with other groups which cannot be just summarily dismissed".
Hillman, Robert A., "An Analysis of the Cessation of Contractual Relations" (1983).
