Search the Dictionary

Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

98,828 entries. Headwords are matched first, then definition text.

9 words match “NONPERFORMANCE”

NONPERFORMANCE n.
Neglect or failure to perform.
ASSUMPSIT n.
An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking. Wharton.…
FAILURE n.
Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
GAGE n.
a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security. Nor without gages to the needy lend. Sandys.
INEXECUTION n.
Neglect of execution; nonperformance; as, the inexecution of a treaty. Spence.
NONEXECUTION n.
Neglect or failure of execution; nonperformance.
PROMISE a.
other, either in words or in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or nonperformance of some particular thing. The word promise is used to denote the mere engagement of a person, without regard to the consideration for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it is made. Chitty. Parsons. B…
TENDER n.
ormed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.
WRIT n.
l, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like.