Washington Properties, Inc. v. Chin, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defining a condition precedent as “an event, not certain to occur, which must occur, unless its non-occurrence is excused, before performance under a contract becomes due” (quoting Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 224 (Am. L. Inst. 1981))
• “As a general rule of contract interpretation, there is a presumption in favor of construing doubtful language in a contract as language of promise rather than as language of condition.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).