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

At last, we can demand that the promisor put some money where his or her mouth is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Could You Lose a Pound a Week to Save $500? A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

If he guarantees "the payment of the note," he is generally considered liable as an original promisor.    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

Sandford's main anxiety now was to provide for Stearine's note, which he felt assured the promisor could not meet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] 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

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

But in some contexts, a defendant promisor makes an implicit representation of an intent not to breach even if a better offer comes along.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

The problem with a 3PB provision, especially one supplied after the fact by a court, is that the promisor does not know to whom she is making promises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Third Party Beneficiaries and Other Fantastical Beasts in Virtual Worlds] Reference

The only universal consequence of a legally binding promise is, that the law makes the promisor pay damages if the promised event does not come to pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Promises and Penalties] Reference

But the kind of liability incurred, whether that of indorser, original promisor, or surety, by indorsing a note or guarantying payment, is not the same in all the states.    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

The promisor must be credible in relation to the matter at hand; and 4.    From Wordnik.com.  [IntLawGrrls] Reference

And Schwarzenegger is a prime example of a promisor who couldn't produce.    From Wordnik.com.  [latimes.com - News] Reference

The promisor must have effective control over the relevant circumstances; 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [IntLawGrrls] Reference

The person who makes the 'proposal' or 'offer' is called the 'promisor' or 'offeror'.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

Effect of neglect of promisee to afford promisor reasonable facilities for performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

With us, a verbal promise is, generally speaking, to be gathered exclusively from the words of the promisor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society] Reference

But when the original debtor is the promisor, a second stipulation produces a novation only if it contains something new -- if.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

Very often other persons, called fidejussors or sureties, are bound for the promisor, being taken by promises as additional security.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

A promise, for instance, to abstain from doing what the promisor has no right to do, is a promise of no value, and therefore no consideration for a contract.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

When a person at whose option a contract is voidable rescinds it, the other party thereto need not perform any promise therein contained in which he is promisor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Such a stipulation as this, though in its terms absolute, implies a condition that enough time shall be allowed to the promisor to enable him to pay the money at Carthage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

Conversely, a stipulation which originally was perfectly good may be avoided by the thing, which is its object, acquiring any of the characters just specified through no fault of the promisor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

When a contract consists of reciprocal promises to be simultaneously performed, no promisor need perform his promise unless the promisee is ready and willing to perform his reciprocal promise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

A contract by which one party promises to save the other from loss caused to him by the conduct of the promisor himself, or by the conduct of any other person, is called a "contract of indemnity".    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Where, by the contract, a promisor is to perform his promise without application by the promisee, and no time for performance is specified, the engagement must be performed within a reasonable time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] 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

When a promise is to be performed on a certain day, and the promisor has not undertaken to perform it without application by the promisee, it is the duty of the, promisee to apply for performance at a proper place and within the usual hours of business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

4. Promissory fraud is usually inappropriate when a promisor breaches because of changed circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

20 But where the promisor stipulates in favour of a third person, having himself an interest in the performance of the promise, the stipulation is good.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

3. Promissory fraud liability may not be appropriate when the promisor didn’t realize what she was promising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Each promisor may compel contribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference