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Guaranty

In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a guarantee; a warranty; a security.

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Collateral 76% connected

Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Guarantee 92% connected

In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Annulment noun · 85% connection

(law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc.)

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Contract noun · 85% connection

a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law

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Invalidation noun · 85% connection

(law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc.)

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Recission noun · 85% connection

(law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the…

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Rescission noun · 85% connection

(law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the…

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Spoliation noun · 85% connection

(law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence

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Adhesion contract noun · 85% connection

a contract that heavily restricts one party while leaving the other free (as some standard form printed contracts); implies inequality…

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Aleatory contract noun · 85% connection

a contract whose performance by one party depends on the occurrence of an uncertain contingent event (but if it is contingent on the o…

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Bilateral contract noun · 85% connection

a contract involving mutual promises (each party is both promisor and promisee)

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Collective agreement noun · 85% connection

contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions

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Conditional contract noun · 85% connection

a contract whose performance depends on a fact or event that affects legal relations

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Contract of adhesion noun · 85% connection

a contract that heavily restricts one party while leaving the other free (as some standard form printed contracts); implies inequality…

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Contract of hazard noun · 85% connection

a sale of a tract of land as a whole without a warranty as to the acreage

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Contract under seal noun · 85% connection

a contract that is signed and has the (wax) seal of the signer attached

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Cost-plus contract noun · 85% connection

a contract in which the contractor is paid their total cost plus a stated percentage of profit

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Apply verb · 78% connection

To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to th…

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Assumpsit noun · 78% connection

An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under…

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breach of contract noun · 78% connection

Not doing what a contract requires.

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Case noun · 78% connection

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridg…

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Commission noun · 78% connection

A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission.

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Condition noun · 78% connection

A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligati…

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Covenant noun · 78% connection

An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stip…

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Debenture noun · 78% connection

A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum…

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Default noun · 78% connection

A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned,…

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Defection noun · 78% connection

Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; fail…

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Discharge verb · 78% connection

Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a…

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Fault noun · 78% connection

(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.…

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