Independent Promises Law and Legal Definition
Independent promises refers to the mutual promises of the parties to a contract so plainly independent of each other that the one can never by fair construction be a condition of the performance of the other.
Courts will not and ought not to construe covenants and agreements as independent, and still enforce performance by the other party, unless there is no other mode of construing the instrument, and unless it clearly appears to have been the deliberate intention of the parties at the time the instrument was executed. In brief, the courts will construe covenants to be dependent, unless a contrary intention clearly appears. [Palmer v. Fox, 274 Mich. 252 (Mich. 1936)].
Legal Definition list
- Independent Producer (Oil and Gas)
- Independent Living Services
- Independent Living Core Services
- Independent Living
- Independent Laboratory
- Independent Promises
- Independent Regulatory Agency
- Independent Scientific Body
- Independent Source Rule
- Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation - ISFSI [Energy]
- Independent States of the Former Soviet Union
Related Legal Terms
- Acts of Independent Significance
- Adequate and Independent Decision
- Center for Independent Living
- Commodity-Independent Component
- Commodity-Independent Value
- Concurrent Promises
- Dependent Promises
- Exercise of Discretion and Independent Judgment
- Family Size of an Independent Student
- Fiscally Independent LEA [Education]
