Appearing in two general forms, monogamy may imply a lifelong contract between two individuals that may be broken only under penalty as prevails in the Roman Catholic and Hindu prescriptions for marriage or it may imply that persons are required to be monogamous but may change spouses repeatedly, a practice sometimes called serial monogamy.
These values are controlling, for they imply a kind of contract between business and society for managers to deliver the benefits for which society justifies the existence of the business system.
Family movies, on the other hand, imply a rather different contract: Parents buy tickets and popcorn for the whole family; filmmakers deliver light entertainment that kowtows to kids yet is not so brain-dead as to alienate sentient adults.
The power operates upon the contract the instant it is framed and must imply a right to affect that contract.' The government's obligation is for the payment both of principal and interest, and an exaction which bears upon either of these features of the obligation is prohibited.
In our context, the health workers' complaints about salary level would imply a violation of the psychological contract, however as long as the salary is paid according to the official salary scale it is not a violation of the formal contract of employment.
Certain terms and conditions can also be implied into a contract of employment by common law or custom and practice.
(1) Unless excluded or modified (Section 2-316), a warranty that the goods shall be merchantable is implied in a contract for their sale if the seller is a merchantwith respect to goods of that kind.
We also abstract from a joint choice between partial retirement and postretirement hours of work and consider that partial retirement implies a part-time contract of 15% of the working day, the minimum permitted by law.
Some executives who have had difficulty holding Chinese partners to negotiated terms have concluded that the Western notion of contract, implying a pact between equals, is alien to traditional Chinese concepts of the role of foreigners on Chinese soil, in which the foreigner has no rights, only the privileges the Chinese confer.
Thus, in the case of a sale by sample, the law implies a condition in the contract that the bulk of the merchandise will correspond with the sample in quality and that the buyer will have a reasonable opportunity to examine the bulk of the merchandise.
