The Journal of the American Society of Engineering Contractors, Volume 5 |
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Page 6 - Persons compounding shall sign an agreement that they will be governed by the Constitution and Laws of the Society as they are now formed, or as they may be hereafter altered, amended or enlarged; and that in case of their ceasing to be connected with the Society from any cause whatever, the amount theretofore paid by them for compounding, and for entrance fees and annual duea, shall be the property of the Society.
Page 96 - Previous and contemporary transactions and facts may be very properly taken into consideration to ascertain the subject matter of a contract and the sense in which the parties may have used particular terms, but not to alter or modify the plain language which they have used.
Page 96 - Undoubtedly the existence of a separate oral agreement as to any matter on which a written contract is silent, and which is not inconsistent with its terms, may be proven by parol, if under the circumstances of the particular case it may properly be inferred that the parties did not intend the written paper to be a complete and final statement of the whole of the transaction between them.
Page 96 - The written contract merged all previous negotiations, and is presumed, in law, to express the final understanding of the parties. If the contract did not express the true agreement, it was the claimant's folly to have signed it.
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Page 96 - When parties have deliberately put their engagements into writing, in such terms as import a legal obligation, without any uncertainty as to the object or extent of such engagement, it is conclusively presumed that the whole engagement of the parties, and the extent and manner of their undertaking, was reduced to writing...
Page 125 - Every officer, board, department, commission or commissions, charged with the duty of preparing specifications or awarding or entering into contracts for the erection, construction or alteration of buildings...
Page 96 - And when the writing itself upon its face is couched in such terms as import a complete legal obligation, without any uncertainty as to the object or extent of the engagement, it is conclusively presumed that the whole engagement of the parties, and the extent and manner of their undertaking, was reduced to writing.
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Page 129 - ... performance of such contracts. In case of an emergency or in the purchase of perishable articles the commissioner may purchase without calling for competition at a total expense not exceeding three thousand dollars during any one month. The commissioner shall in the case of each such...