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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

It may denote an in- N. W. 16. A valid contract engagement of a somewn&t informal character.

Winslow v. Lumber Co., 32 Minn. 238, 20 N. W. 145.

In the law of contracts it is a loose and ambiguous term, unless accompanied by some expression to show that It constituted a meeting of the minds of the parties upon something respecting which they intended to be bound.

Camp v. Waring, 25 Conn. 529.