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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
contractual
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a contractual obligation (=something that a contract says you must do)
▪ The company must refund your money in line with their contractual obligations.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agreement
▪ Users have to register, but aren't obliged to enter into a lengthy contractual agreement.
▪ There is no need for any contractual agreement.
▪ Authorities will develop specifications for services and then reach contractual agreements with provider agencies such as voluntary or private organizations.
▪ They invest in the preparation of the site and enter into a contractual agreement to grow free range chickens for.
▪ A contractual agreement about retirement could also affect your statutory rights.
arrangement
▪ Such a situation creates a gravitational pull toward contractual arrangements and a corresponding push away from employment in the traditional sense.
commitment
▪ Anyhow, he had other contractual commitments, so he refused to allow his name to be used.
duty
▪ Nevertheless, there are circumstances in which an employer may be under a contractual duty to provide work.
▪ The job description shall be consistent with the contractual duties laid down in this agreement.
▪ There was, however, no obligation added to the contractual duties imposed on the plaintiff under the original contract.
▪ In the case of exchanges it usually translates into a general contractual duty to act fairly.
▪ Other allegations against the latter suggested a breach of a contractual duty of care, false representations and undue influence.
▪ Liability tended to be seen in terms of contractual duties.
▪ Was there any contractual duty on the defendants to disclose this material fact to the plaintiff?
▪ P1 is not under a contractual duty to tell P2 of any defects he is aware of, unless P2 specifically asks.
liability
▪ The haulier will seek to exclude his contractual liability for certain acts or omissions, just like any other shrewd businessman.
obligation
▪ But Virgin executives are privately convinced that meeting this contractual obligation will be impossible because so many major issues remain unresolved.
▪ Can an employee handbook serve as a basis for contractual obligation?
▪ Liability for contractual obligations is joint.
▪ At that point, stars and studios fulfill their initial contractual obligation and are free to negotiate with other parties.
▪ As programme manager, Mendoros was responsible for establishing contacts, negotiating requirements and ensuring that contractual obligations were met.
▪ In Washington, for example, a teacher was discharged from his contractual obligation because of his deteriorating eyesight.
▪ To meet its contractual obligations the proportion of the with-profits fund invested in equities will drop.
▪ Section 2f reads: Members must fulfil to the best of their ability the contractual obligations owed to their employer.
relationship
▪ Equally, an obligation may be imposed even where there is no contractual relationship, provided it is obvious from the facts.
▪ It soon became clear that breach of confidence was actionable perse, and did not require a contractual relationship between the parties.
▪ An analysis of the contractual relationship produces the same result and the same consequences.
▪ They have a contractual relationship with the firm, and as long as the contract is honoured they have no additional claim.
▪ First, the contractual relationship between the shipper-consignor and the carrier issuer of the bill controlled subsequently acquired rights.
▪ The unlawful means adopted may be considerably more remote than interference in the contractual relationship between B and his servants.
▪ Both these features give unnecessary complexity to the termination of the contractual relationship.
▪ A court will construe the parties' contractual relationship against its factual background.
right
▪ I have no contractual rights as a woman in my country.
▪ But the defendants insist that the result of an indemnity basis taxation does not correspond with their contractual rights.
▪ They accept, that is to say, that the order of the court and the taxation consequent thereon will effectively quantify their contractual right.
▪ It was held that there was no appropriation because there was no identifiable property, merely a contractual right against the bank.
▪ In such a case you are entitled to keep your contractual rights although many new owners will try to renegotiate these.
▪ Thus, employers are acting within their contractual rights if they require the employees to move.
▪ Typical legal rights are property rights and contractual rights.
▪ But a share is something far more than a mere contractual right in personam.
term
▪ These rights and obligations are called contractual terms.
▪ It may be some special legal word-ing, signature block, advertising message, or contractual term that is used repeatedly.
▪ Sometimes a contractual term lies in a grey area between the two.
▪ The nature of the breach determined the nature of the contractual term.
▪ A prudent employer will always have an express contractual term protecting business secrets.
▪ There was a contractual term dealing with summary dismissal for gross misconduct.
▪ For present purposes, natural justice is therefore treated as an implied contractual term rather than a floating, self-contained principle.
▪ Finally, in determining your base, all relevant contractual terms should be examined.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Carney has a contractual commitment to write two new books in the next four years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As it is, the company can not in any case be accounted for as a wholly contractual phenomenon.
▪ At that point, stars and studios fulfill their initial contractual obligation and are free to negotiate with other parties.
▪ Most people's savings are contractual, through pension funds and life assurers.
▪ Similarly, a requirement that the expert observe the rules of natural justice could be made a contractual obligation.
▪ The natural-entity theory had several advantages compared with the contractual and the fiction/concession models of the company.
▪ The nature of the contract, contractual and tortious liabilities and the use of exclusion clauses will be considered.
▪ The second theory of the nature of the company is the contractual one.
▪ Whether the transaction is to be categorised as a sale or exchange is a question of contractual intention.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
contractual

1827, from Latin contractus (see contract (n.)) + -al (1).

Wiktionary
contractual

a. Of or pertaining to a contract.

WordNet
contractual

adj. relating to or part of a binding legal agreement; "contractual obligations"

Usage examples of "contractual".

The Hobbesian variant focuses primarily on the transfer of the title of sovereignty and conceives the constitution of the supranational sovereign entity as a contractual agreement grounded on the convergence of preexisting state subjects.

Whereas the Hobbesian hypothesis emphasizes the contractual process that gives rise to a new unitary and transcendental supranational power, the Lockean hypothesis focuses on the counterpowers that animate the constitutive process and support the supranational power.

Background checks Policy: A background check should be required for all new hires, contractors, consultants, temporary workers, or interns prior to an offer of employment or establishing of a contractual relationship.

With the courtliest of bows, Lord Tionel presented the case to his former contractual spouse.

Rights may have to be re-assigned, revenues re-distributed, contractual relationships re-thought.

All further negotiations are agreed to be directed to her majordomo, one Niklos Aulirios, who is empowered to carry out all contractual arrangements for her, and to have the sanction of the General Belisarius for such actions.

If the patient consciously acknowledges the physi­cian and appeals for his or her help, then the bilaterality, the mutu­ality of the contractual relation of friendship goes automatically into effect.

Oh, he's brawning you to Beta Corvi, but there isn't anything contractual after that.

Oh, he’s brawning you to Beta Corvi, but there isn’t anything contractual after that.

Mason seeking thro' the force of his upward gaze some self-Elevation, "I am a Cadastral Surveyor, upon a Contractual Assignment," in a tone inviting a respectful hush.

But he stood low on one of the competitive examinations at a time when Cassida owed a contractual balance of troops to New Earth.

Your payment in full of the requisite purchase price has been received and escrowed, pending the passage of ten days per our contractual agreement.

There might be some secret tangle of contractual balances concerning the Exotics and the Friendlies I knew nothing about.

The board would look into grievances and settle such disputes as might occur about staking acres or contractual misunderstandings.

The crypto-industrial complex, like the military-industrial complex of the Cold War, is a cozy fraternity of business executives with close, expensive contractual ties to NSA.