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- noun Plural form of
promisor .
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Principle F is reasonable (i.e., a real moral principle with normative force) because the reasons potential promisees have not to be deceived outweigh the reasons potential promisors have to deceive.
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This seems to make unilateral divorce morally problematic, as promisors cannot release themselves from promissory obligations (Morse 2006, cf. Trainor 1992).
Marriage and Domestic Partnership Brake, Elizabeth 2009
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At that time, conservative legal scholars invented the concept of individual calculating promisors as the only valid actors whose agreements their notion of contract law would protect.
Archive 2008-06-01 Dan Ernst 2008
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The law has long recognized this possibility and reacted harshly to insincere promisors.
Balkinization 2005
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But courts should acknowledge that not all promises include that representation, and they should allow promisors to disclaim it.
Balkinization 2005
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Fellow Promisers, joint Promisers [illegible] 2 [promisors?] who singly promise the same
John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759 1966
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The usual form to constitute two or more joint promisors is as follows, -- 'Maevius, do you promise to give five aurei?
The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891
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There may be two or more parties on either side in a stipulation, that is to say, as promisors or promisees.
The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891
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- Where two or more persons have made a joint promise, a release of one of such joint promisors by the promisee does not discharge the other joint promisor or joint promisors; neither does it free the joint promisors so released from responsibility to the other joint promisor or joint promisors. 1* 45.
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- When two or; more persons make a joint promise, the promisee may, in the absence of express agreement to the contrary, compel any 1* [one or more] of such joint promisors, to perform the whole of the promise.
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