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.