engagemen

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engagemen - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  ENGAGEMENT. This word is frequently used in the French law to signify not 
  only a contract, but the obligations arising from a quasi contract. The 
  terms obligations (q.v.) and engagements, are said to be synonymous 17 
  Toull. n. 1; but the Code seems specially to apply the term engagement to 
  those obligations which the law, imposes on a man without the intervention 
  of any contract, either on the part of the obligor or the obligee. Art. 
  1370.