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... parties , secure plans and specifications in advance of making contracts , as would have been necessary if bid contracts had been used , the entire work would have been delayed at least 6 months . The delay would have been of major 25 ...
... parties , secure plans and specifications in advance of making contracts , as would have been necessary if bid contracts had been used , the entire work would have been delayed at least 6 months . The delay would have been of major 25 ...
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... parties to the contract . Second , the contractors must be experienced , reliable , con- scientious , energetic , resourceful , and also have a clear understand- ing of the peculiar relationships of the parties . Third , there must be a ...
... parties to the contract . Second , the contractors must be experienced , reliable , con- scientious , energetic , resourceful , and also have a clear understand- ing of the peculiar relationships of the parties . Third , there must be a ...
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... parties meet first upon a general purpose or intent . they undertake to set down various specific understandings upon which they agree . But it is manifestly impossible for them to specify every obligation and responsibility that will ...
... parties meet first upon a general purpose or intent . they undertake to set down various specific understandings upon which they agree . But it is manifestly impossible for them to specify every obligation and responsibility that will ...
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... parties and which will not give one of them an un- fair or unreasonable advantage over the other ( 13 Corpus Juris 540 ) . In arriving at the intention of the parties , where the language of a contract is susceptible of more than one ...
... parties and which will not give one of them an un- fair or unreasonable advantage over the other ( 13 Corpus Juris 540 ) . In arriving at the intention of the parties , where the language of a contract is susceptible of more than one ...
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... parties having stipulated that the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Mason and Hanger , mentioned below , should control . The case of Mason and Hanger Co. v . U. S. was tried in the Court of Claims and ...
... parties having stipulated that the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Mason and Hanger , mentioned below , should control . The case of Mason and Hanger Co. v . U. S. was tried in the Court of Claims and ...
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Page 55 - District, which may require or involve the employment of laborers or mechanics shall contain a provision that no laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by the contract, in the employ of the contractor or any sub-contractor contractIng for any part of said work contemplated, shall be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day...
Page 8 - The contractor warrants that he has not employed any person to solicit or secure this contract upon any agreement for a commission, percentage, brokerage, or contingent fee.
Page 8 - This warranty shall not apply to commissions payable by Contractors upon contracts or sales secured or made through bona fide established commercial or selling agencies maintained by the Contractor for the purpose of securing business.
Page 55 - ... for each laborer or mechanic for every calendar day in which such employee is required or permitted to labor more than eight hours upon said work without receiving compensation computed in accordance with this article, and all penalties thus imposed shall be withheld for the use and benefit of the Government...
Page 56 - States, or if articles, materials, or supplies of the class or kind to be used or the articles, materials, or supplies from which they are manufactured are not mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available commercial quantities and of a satisfactory quality.
Page 62 - Folger, the party of the first part, and Michael Cleary, the party of the second part, witnesseth, that the said party of the first part, in consideration of the covenants and agreements on the part of the said party of the second part hereinafter...
Page 55 - ... supplies as have been mined or produced in the United States, and only such manufactured articles, materials, arid supplies as have been manufactured in the United States substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured, as the case may be, in the United States, shall be acquired for public use.
Page 33 - A contract must be construed as a whole, and the intention of the parties is to be collected from the entire instrument, and not from detached portions, it being necessary to consider all of its parts in order to determine the meaning of any particular part, as well as of the whole.
Page 59 - Disputes. Except as otherwise specifically provided In this contract, all disputes concerning questions of fact arising under this contract shall be decided by the contracting officer subject to written appeal by the contractor within 30 days to the head of the department concerned or his duly authorized representative, whose decision shall be final and conclusive upon the parties thereto. In the meantime the contractor shall diligently proceed with the work as directed.
Page 33 - ... so as to view the circumstances as they viewed them, and so to judge of the meaning of the words and of the correct application of the language to the things described.