Takings

large class, exceeding in their number even trading companies, which for shortness may be called public companies, that is to say, companies constituted by special act of parliament for the purpose of constructing and carrying on undertakings of ...

Certain sovereign actions to protect health, morals, safety, or even to "promote the general welfare" are undertaken within the government's inherent police power and, as such, are not considered takings within the eminent domain power.

The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 ("TUPE") apply where an undertaking (business) is sold as a going concern (as opposed to a sale of assets or a sale of shares) or where a unit within a business is ...

Strict liability, under which those engaging in certain undertakings (e.g., such "ultrahazardous" practices as the industrial use of high explosives) are held responsible for injury without inquiry into fault, ...

federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act governs the collection, use and disclosure of personal information in connection with commercial activities and personal information about employees of federal works, undertakings ...

" The Fourteenth Amendment added the requirement of just compensation to state and local government takings.

Purported agreements which are without consideration, such as unilateral undertakings which may bind a person morally, but not under contract law, in those jurisdictions which still require consideration.

plaintiff, it is that he recover a specified sum, assessed by a jury, or on reference to the prothonotary, or other proper officer, for the damages which he has sustained, by reason of the defendant's non-performance of his promises and undertakings, ...

Executory agreements, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, are such contracts as rest on articles, memorandums, parol promises, or undertakings, and the like, to be performed in future, ...

See also: Undertaking, Law, Right, State, Use