Engineering Contracts and Specifications: Including a Brief Synopsis of the Law of Contracts and Illustrative Examples of the General and Technical Clauses of Various Kinds of Engineering Specifications, Designed for the Use of Students, Engineers, and Contractors |
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Page 57 - (2) Such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it. (3) Such as arose out of
Page 297 - parties of the first part, have hereunto set their hands and seals respectively, and the City of St. Louis, party of the second part, acting by and through the board of public improvements aforesaid, have subscribed these presents the day and year first above
Page 28 - valuable consideration" in the eyes of the law is "some right, interest, profit, or benefit, accruing to one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss, or responsibility given, suffered, or undertaken by the other.
Page 57 - made, -where such circumstances -were communicated by the plaintiff to the defendant. (4) But, if these special circumstances were wholly unknown to the party breaking the contract, he, at the most, can only be supposed to have had in his contemplation the amount of injury which
Page 504 - or its certain attorney, its successors and assigns, for which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. The Condition of this obligation is such that if the above-bounden shall well and truly keep and perform all the terms and conditions of the foregoing contract for
Page 541 - tested of full size as rolled. (d) Rivet-steel shall bend cold 180" flat on itself without fracture on the outside of the bent portion. (e) Medium steel shall bend cold 180° around a diameter equal to the thickness of the specimen tested, without fracture on the outside of the bent portion. TEST PIECES AND METHODS OF TESTING.
Page 389 - the presence of That we Know all Men by these Presents, are held and firmly bound unto the CITY OF BOSTON, in the sum of its certain attorney, its successors and assigns, for which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. if the
Page 381 - Work. 71. Whenever the contractor is not present on any part of the work where it may be desired to give directions, orders will be given by the engineer to, and shall be received and obeyed by, the superintendent or foreman who may have charge of the particular work in relation to which the orders are given.
Page 442 - Material which is to be used without annealing or further treatment is to be tested in the condition in which it comes from the rolls. When material is to be annealed or otherwise treated before use, the specimen representing such material is to be similarly treated before testing.
Page 548 - shall bend 180° flat on itself without fracture on the outside of the bent portion. (6) If preferred the bending test may be made on an unpunched splice-bar, which, if necessary, shall be first flattened, and shall then be bent 180° flat on itself without fracture on the outside of the bent portion. TEST PIECES AND METHODS OF TESTING.