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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

A promise to do an act soon, imports, usually, that the promisor will do it in a reasonable time; he is entitled to a reasonable time for performance, and is liable, after that time has expired without performance.

See Sanford v. Shepard, 14.K^an. 228; Ubsdell ». Pierson, 22 Mo. 124; Waddell v. Eeddick, 2 Ired. L. 424.