third party beneficiary contract

third party beneficiary contract
in US law a contract that allows a party to whom the parties in a main contract intend to receive a benefit to enforce a duty created by the main contract, irrespective of an issue of consideration: Lawrence v . Fox 20 NY 268 (1859).
English law has only recently adopted a similar position. See jus quaesitum tertio, privity of contract.

Collins dictionary of law. . 2001.

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