He believed that each party to an agreement must fully understand his responsibilities.

A confluence of other factors also pushed the parties to an agreement.

Parties to an agreement may agree on remedies in the event of breach.

No legal entitlement is conferred on third parties to an agreement.

Only those who are party to an agreement are bound by the agreement.

What these concepts come down to is this: If both parties to an agreement are benefiting from the deal, presumably they will not break the contract.

"Normally each party to an agreement receives an emolument appropriate to his participation," Electra continued incomprehensibly.

If the parties to an agreement could specify their respective rights and duties for every possible future state of the world, their contract would be complete.

Many elite institutions were once party to an agreement in which they pledged to direct their limited financial aid money toward students with the greatest financial needs.

They were rebuffed by the left-leaning public servant (later Sir) Andrew Cohen, who, after much deliberation, brought the parties to an agreement.

It is, however, possible to point to what might well be regarded as unreasonable and the parties to an agreement should always endeavour to check their provisions against such benchmarks.

If the parties to an agreement want to refer their disputes to an expert and to keep the dispute out of court, they must say so specifically in the agreement.

In a complex transaction, Playtex Holdings Inc. and its three apparel units will be bought for $1.3 billion by two investor groups, the parties to an agreement said yesterday.

Alternatively they may prefer to use a process where the neutral agent offers an opinion and/or seeks to bring the parties to an agreement (mediation, conciliation, and early neutral evaluation).

Misrepresentation (Section 18): " causing, however innocently, a party to an agreement to make a mistake as to the substance of the thing which is the subject of the agreement".

Nonetheless, Soviet officials seem reluctant to be a party to an agreement that rules out Moscow's right to supply arms or that acknowledges an American right to supply the guerrillas.

Mistake of fact (Section 20): "Where both the parties to an agreement are under a mistake as to a matter of fact essential to the agreement, the agreement is void".

Accordingly, the Tennessee Valley Authority is not obligated to pay referral fees to any agency that is not party to an agreement with Tennessee Valley Authority.

By this means both parties to an agreement could possess a copy of its written record, and each copy could be verified as genuine through introduction to, and comparison with, the other.

Iraq is a party to an agreement made with the Security Council of the United Nations, which specifically states that they are obliged to accept whatever staff Unscom hires to do the job."

With the new strength of resistance to the Bosnian Serbs' aggression, the mystery is why the United States has brought the parties to an agreement seemingly so favorable to the Serbian leaders' ambitions.

EI and CB were parties to an agreement - the Helsinki Agreement - that related to the acceptance by traders in France of Eurocheques drawn on foreign financial institutions.

Hence they are pronounced illegal unless the parties to an agreement can set aside the presumption by "proving" to the satisfaction of the Restrictive Practices Court that the agreement operates in the public interest.

While avoiding comments on specific diplomatic intiatives, he made it clear that he would not be party to an agreement that offered the Soviet Union political gains for its intervention in his country in December 1979.

"The precedent here really worries me, that two parties can bind a third party to an agreement when the third party wasn't even in the room," said Senator David L. Boren, Democrat of Oklahoma.