Bilateral

Designates a contract executory on both sides, as, a sale.

Unilateral.

When one party makes no express agreement, but his obligation is left to implication of law, as, a guaranty. See Contbact, Bilateral, etc. a bilateral record is a record introduced between parties and privies. A imilateral record is a record offered to show a particular fact as a prima facie case for or against a stranger.

BILGrED.

That state of a ship in which water is freely admitted through holes and breaches made in the planks of the bottom, occasioned by injuries, whether the ship's timbers are broken or not.'