Paley says, "A promise is binding in that sense in which the promiserthought at the time of making that the other party understood it.
And Paley expresses the opinion of all writers on morals, as well as the conviction of all honest men, when he says, "that a promise is binding in that sense in which the promiser thought at the time that the other party understood it.
He interposed nothing between the Promiserand himself.
The Eternal Justifier and Promiser dealt with Abraham, and in him with the world, before the birth of that Law which the Pharisee has perverted into his rampart of privilege and isolation.
He treated the Promiseras what He is, all-sufficient and all-faithful.
It becomes, therefore, of practical importance to decide the question previously raised: What duty rests on the promiser of satisfying expectations which he did not intend to create?
So far we have supposed that the promiser can choose his own words, and that if the promisee finds them ambiguous he can get them modified, or (what comes to the same thing) explained, by the promiser.
The promiser is bound to perform what both he and the promisee understood to be undertaken.
We refer, therefore, to the customary use of language, and customary tacit understandings current among persons in the particular relations in which promiser and promisee stand.
Now we do not commonly think that the promiser is concerned with the latter.
The words of a promise may often bear more than one interpretation; but it is obviously required by veracity that the promiser should fulfil his promise in the sense in which he supposed it to be understood by him to whom it was made.
The public, and the parties concerned, will look somewhat to the disposition of the promiser indicated by his conduct, as well as to his power of fulfilling his engagements.
A time of disaster on the part of the promiser seems not to add much to the dignity of his person or to the effect of his offers.
A meaning not ill expressed by Ovid in the second book of his Metamorphoses, where the promiser says to him, to whom he had promised, "My word has become yours.
Another question is, whether the acceptance alone of a promise is sufficient, or whether it ought to be communicated to the promiserbefore it can be made binding.
It is a right, which natural reason dictates, that every one who receives a promise, should have power to compel the promiser to do what a fair interpretation of his words suggests.
But if the promise was obtained by fraud, the person so obtaining it shall indemnify the promiser for the injury sustained, if there has been any partial error in the promise, yet in other respects it shall be deemed valid.
But a promise, as was said before, derives all its force from the right of the promiser to make it, nor can it extend beyond that.
For to make the person, to whom a promise has been given, liable to release the engagement, the promiser himself must have been forced to give the promise under impressions of unjust fear.
But before a condition is accepted, it is evident, as was seen in the chapter on promises, that the promiser is not bound to its fulfilment; for no right has been conferred by the one party, or acquired by the other.
The promiser therefore himself, by revoking it, is not doing violence to the perfect right of another, but only acting in contradiction his own good faith.
It is certain that a promise may be made two ways, either upon condition of its being fulfilled, if accepted, or upon condition of its being ratified, if the promiser is apprised of its being accepted.
To render a promise valid, it must be such as it is in the power of the promiser to perform.
But if the promiser has neglected to examine the matter, or has been careless in expressing his meaning, he will be bound to repair the damage which another has sustained on that account.
Because the promiser made them upon certain conditions only, the fulfilment of which becomes impossible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "promiser" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
