Contractus
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
A drawing together: a meeting of minds; a contract. See Forum; Locus. ' Ex contractu. By virtu'j of a contract. Applied to a right or a duty founded upon a contract relation. Opposed, ex delicto: by force of a wrongful act, or tort. Whence actions ex contractu and ex delicto.
See Action, 8; Delictum.
The civil law refers the greater part of rights and duties to the head of obligations ex contractu and quasi ex contractu: express and implied contracts.'