Horseman vy. Horseman, 48 Or
Categories: Contracts
Definition (1910 Edition)
88, 72 Pac. 688; Norrington v. Wright (C. C.) 5 Fed. 771; Dowley v. Schiffer (Com. Pl.) 18 N. Y. S 552: Se ps v. Bauder, 75 Iowa, 550, 39 N. W. 887, 1 L. R. A. 655. Where a contract consists of many parts, which may be considered as parts of one whole, the contract is entire. When the parts may be considered as so man . distinct contracts, entered into at one time, an expressed in the same instrumént, but not theremade one contract, the contract is a separable contract. But, if the consideration of the contract is single and entire, the contract must be held to be entire, although the subject of the contract may consist of several distinct and wholly independent items. 2 Pars. Cont. 517.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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