Inv. Trust v. Sears, 30 Or
Categories: Contracts
Definition (1910 Edition)
388, 41 Pac. 931, 35 L. R. A. 188.—Money claims. In English practice. Under the judicature act of 1875, claims for the price of goods sold, for money lent, for arrears of rent, etc., and other claims where money is directly payable on a contract express or implied, as opposed to the cases where money is claimed by way of damages for some independent wrong, whether by breach of contract or otherwise. These “money claims” correspond very nearly to the “money counts’’ hitherto in use. Mozley & Whitley.—Money demand. A claim for a fixed and liquidated amount of money, or for a sum which can be ascertained by mere calculation; in this sense, distinguished from a claim which must be pass-
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