Engagement
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In French law. A contract; the obligations arising from a quasi contract. The terms "obligation" and "engagement" are said to be synonymous (17 Toullier, Dr. Civ. note 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 or the obligee.
Article 1370.