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bilateral contract

n. a contract involving mutual promises (each part is both promisor and promisee)

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Langdell says that a bought note, though part of a bilateral contract, is to be treated as unilateral, and that it may be presumed that the language of the contract relied on was that of a bought note, and thus a condition in favor of the defendant, who made it.