Engagement
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
In French Law. A contrail. The obligations arising from a Quasi contract. The terms obligation and engagement are said to be synonymous; 17 Toullier, n. 1; but the Code seems specially to apply the term engagement to those obligations which the law imposes on a man without the intervention of any contract, either on the part of the obligor of the obligee; art.
1370.
An engagement to do or omit to do something amounts to a promise; Rue v. Rue, 21 N. J. L. 3G9. Promises or debts of a married woman, not expressly charged on her separate estate, are termed her general engagements, not binding it unless made with reference to and upon the credit of it.
L. R. 4 C. P. 593; L. R. 2 Eq. 1S2; 3 De G., F. & J. 513.
See Agreement; Contbact; Peomise.