Bilateral

Two-sided. Bilateral contract: a contract in which there are two promises, one the consideration of the other.

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.'

Two-sided, v. Contract.