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2. Third-party beneficiary - Wikipedia

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   Contract law. A third-party beneficiary, in the law of contracts, is a person who may have the right to sue on a contract, despite not having originally been an active party to the contract. This right, known as a ius quaesitum tertio, [1] arises when the third party (tertius or alteri) is the intended beneficiary of the contract, as opposed to ...

3. Assignment (law) - Wikipedia

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   For example, if A contracts to sell his car for $100 to B, A may assign the benefits (the right to be paid $100) to C. [b] In this case, Party C is not a third party beneficiary, because the contract was not made for C's benefit. Assignment takes place after the contract was formed; they may not precede them. [citation needed]

4. Delegation (law) - Wikipedia

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   t. e. In contract law and administrative law, delegation (Latin intercessio) is the act of giving another person the responsibility of carrying out the performance agreed to in a contract. Three parties are concerned with this act - the party who had incurred the obligation to perform under the contract is called the delegator; the party who ...

5. Privity of contract - Wikipedia

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   In addition, section 48 of the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 (Cth) allows third-party beneficiaries to enforce contracts of insurance. Although damages are the usual remedy for the breach of a contract for the benefit of a third party, if damages are inadequate, specific performance may be granted (Beswick v. Beswick [1968] AC 59).

6. Letter of credit - Wikipedia

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   The beneficiary is the person or company who will be paid under the letter of credit; this will normally be the seller (UCP600 Article 2 defines the beneficiary as "the party in whose favour a credit is issued"). The issuing bank is the bank that issues the credit, usually following a request from an applicant.

7. Life settlement - Wikipedia

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   Life settlement. A life settlement or viatical settlement (from Latin viaticum, something received before death) [1] is the legal sale of an existing life insurance policy (typically of seniors) for more than its cash surrender value, but less than its net death benefit, [2] to a third party investor. [3] Such a sale provides the policy owner ...