contrahent

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English

Etymology

From Latin contrahens.

Adjective

contrahent (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Entering into covenant; contracting.
    contrahent parties
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Noun

contrahent (plural contrahents)

  1. One of the parties entering into a contract.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for contrahent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)


Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) contrahent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of contrahō