{"id":9663,"date":"2017-11-26T23:24:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T23:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=9663"},"modified":"2017-11-26T23:40:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T23:40:32","slug":"action-ex-contractu-civil-actions-arising-out-of-to-contracts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=9663","title":{"rendered":"Action ex contractu – a personal action arising out of a contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

ex contractu<\/span><\/em>:<\/span>
\n<\/b>[Latin \u2018from a contract]<\/span>
\n(17c.)<\/span><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Arising from a\u00a0<\/strong>contract<\/strong><\/a><action ex contractu>.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Arising out of a contract; founded upon a contract, as an obligation ex contractu<\/em>, or an action ex contractu<\/em>.\u00a0 See 3 Bl Comm 117<\/span>.<\/strong>
\nSee\u00a0quasi ex contractu<\/em>. [2]<\/span><\/p>\n

action ex contractu<\/em><\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n(18c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A personal action arising out of a contract.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>[1]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from Edwin E. Bryant’s\u00a0The Law of Pleading Under the Codes of Civil Procedure<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2d ed. 1899):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cActions ex contractu<\/em> were somewhat illogically classified thus: covenant, debt, assumpslt, detinue, and account.\u00a0 The action of covenant lay where the party claimed damages for a breach of contract or promise under seal.\u00a0 The writ of debt lay for the recovery of a debt; that is, a liquidated or certain sum of money alleged to be due from defendant to plaintiff.\u00a0 The writ of detinue was the ancient remedy where the plaintiff claimed the specific recovery of goods, chattels, deeds, or writings detained from him.\u00a0 This remedy fell into disuse by reason of the unsatisfactory mode of trial of \u2018wager of law,\u2019 which the defendant could claim; and recourse was had to the action of replevin.\u00a0 In the American States an action of replevin founded upon statute provisions is almost universally the remedy for the recovery of specific personal property.<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

action en declaration de simulation<\/em><\/span>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n(1850)<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> Louisiana law.<\/em> An action to void a contract.\u00a0<\/strong> See simulated contract<\/em> under CONTRACT. [1]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]\u00a0Black’s Law Dictionary Deluxe Tenth Edition by Henry Campbell Black & Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner<\/a>. ISBN: 978-0-314-62130-6<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]:\u00a0Ballantine\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0with Pronunciations
\n<\/em>Third Edition<\/a>\u00a0by James A. Ballantine\u00a0(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Edited by William S. Anderson.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a9 1969 by THE LAWYER\u2019S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.\u00a0 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[3]:\u00a0Edwin E. Bryant, The Law of Pleading Under the Codes of Civil Procedure<\/em><\/a> 5 (2d ed. 1899).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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[3]: Ballantine’s Law Dictionary <\/a>Legal Assistant Edition<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Jack Ballantine\u00a0(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Doctored<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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