I really appreciate that quality, in my role of promisee as well as promisor. From Wordnik.com. [By Their Fruits: How Can We Know What's Right to Do?] Reference
Why should the promisee believe you, knowing that it may be to your advantage to renege?. From Wordnik.com. [All Be Galdangit] Reference
But this clashes with our firm intuition that a broken promise harms primarily the jilted promisee. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
So when the promisee goes searching for a reason to trust, the standard one is barred from consideration. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
Similarly a promisee has a right because he has the power to waive the promisor's duty to keep the promise. From Wordnik.com. [Rights] Reference
The problem is best framed in epistemic terms, as one of the reason that a promisee has to trust a promiser. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
The promisee, then, has a right to have her expectations met, given the promisor's voluntary raising of her expectations. From Wordnik.com. [Special Obligations] Reference
So it seems that the trust of my promisee is both the cause and the effect of my promise, and this seems an unacceptable circle. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
Similarly, a promisor exercises a power-right to create in the promisee a claim that the promisor will perform a certain action. From Wordnik.com. [Rights] Reference
Theories of this sort generally agree that: (1) Promises are the sorts of things that are designed to invite the trust of promisee. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
The promisor's exercise of her power-right to promise creates in the promisee a claim that the promisor do what she promised to do. From Wordnik.com. [Rights] Reference
One could then argue that reasons of special obligation supervene upon relationships between friends, between promisor and promisee, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Special Obligations] Reference
The question is whether there is any obligation to keep the promise, given that the promisee can't have any expectations of its fulfillment. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
The Desert Island/Deathbed cases described above (Section 4.2) are one such problem, where the expectations are lacking because the promisee is dead. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
In another vein, Margaret Gilbert (2004) has critiqued (Scanlonian) expectationalism on the grounds that the theory leaves no room for a right in the promisee. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
Such risk is forbidden by the first law of nature (self defense) unless the promisee has some very good reason to assume that the promiser won't betray his trust. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
This belief, combined with beliefs about the moral rectitude of the promiser, give the promisee a sound reason to believe that the promiser will keep her promise. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
Also, recall that “efficiency” is in the eye of the beholder, and someone who wants to breach has a powerful incentive to misvalue the costs borne by the promisee. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Promises and Penalties] Reference
If the trust of the promiser is the ground of the moral obligation to keep a promise, then prior to the promisee coming to trust the promiser, no such obligation exists. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
The intuitively obvious reason for the trust of a promisee has is that the promiser has promised, and as such has placed herself under a moral obligation to do the deed. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
For expectationalists, a promise is a perlocutionary act, as it's only successful if it actually produces the expectations in the promisee that the promise will be carried out. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
Although the holder may sue it in his own name, the maker may offset any demands which he had against the promisee before it was transferred, as in the case of notes not negotiable. From Wordnik.com. [The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.] Reference
Promises which are wholly gratuitous are void; because, being neither a benefit to the promiser, nor an injury to the promisee, they are not regarded in law as a valuable consideration. From Wordnik.com. [The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.] Reference
In support of this picture utilitarians offer that promises are the sorts of things which are generally made because the promisee wants the thing promised, and so wants to be assured of getting it. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
Kristal: your so nice thank you so much ill pay you back i promisee. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Performance in manner or at time prescribed or sanctioned by promisee. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Promisor not bound to perform, unless reciprocal promisee ready and willing to perform. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Effect of neglect of promisee to afford promisor reasonable facilities for performance. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
From his master's legal capacity a slave derives ability to be promisee in a stipulation. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
The coming short of the greatest promisee, the debasement of the noblest ideals, are among the commonplaces of history. From Wordnik.com. [Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890] Reference
In short, a promise made with the intention to induce and on which a promisee relies to his or her detriment may be actionable in equity. From Wordnik.com. [Toronto Estate Law Blog] Reference
But even after acceptance a promise is not a contract, for the promiser may not choose to bind himself in justice, but only in good faith, while the promisee is under no obligation whatever. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Philosophy] Reference
Where a promisor has made an offer of performance to the promisee, and the offer has not been accepted, the promisor is not responsible for non - performance, nor does he thereby lose his rights under the contract. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Smith, the original promisee. From Wordnik.com. [The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.] Reference
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