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§ 137

Citation
§ 137
Parent Document
Hart v. Vermont Investment Ltd. Partnership, 667 A.2d 578 (1995)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
1995-11-09

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A contract has, strictly speaking, nothing to do with the personal, or individual intent of the parties. A contract is an obligation attached by the mere force of law to certain acts of the parties, usually words, which ordinarily accompany and represent a known intent. If, however, it were proved by twenty bishops that either parly, when he used the words, intended something else than the usual meaning which the law imposes upon them, he would still be held, unless there were some mutual mistake, or something else of the sort. Id. at 293; accord Ray, supra,