Again, the view that marriage was a private contract came to prevail among the mass of the people, and even to be embodied in a great many of the constitutions and laws of the nineteenth century.
Marriage became a private contract, whereas, as we have seen, in the beginning it was a religious bond.
In order to aid in making this bond more stable the early church recognized marriage as one of the sacraments, and, as implied, steadily opposed the idea of the later Roman Law that marriage was simply a private contract.
All the essential principles that enter into the question of obligation, in the case of a private contract, or a legislative enactment, enter equally into the question of the obligation of a contract agreed to by the whole mass of the people.
On May 27th the carriage was advertised for sale by private contract, by Mr. Joseph Emmerson Bane, at the King's Head Inn, Blofield.
The well-known trotting stallion, Marshland Shales, will be sold by auction on Tombland Fair-day, unless previously disposed of by private contract.
When he saw Richardson's property advertised for sale, he conferred with Johnson on the subject of its purchase by them, which they effected by private contract, Lee resigning his post at Sadler's Wells to undertake the management.
Derues offered himself as a purchaser, and actually acquired the property by private contract, dated December, 1775.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private contract" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
