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exchange contracts en · VERB
Meanings
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(England, Northern-Ireland, Wales, idiomatic) To formally contract to purchase, sell or otherwise be party to a disposition of an estate in land; usually requiring the payment of a deposit by one of the parties.
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(England, Northern-Ireland, Wales, qualifier:chiefly by legal practitioners) To create a contract for the disposition of an estate in land between negotiating parties, by a process which is immediately followed by the exchange of executed counterparts of the contract between each party's legal representative.
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exchange of contracts