contract (subs.) Copy link Outline I. In business1. lŏcātio (denoting the act of the party hiring services; to which rĕdemptio and sometimes conductio are the correlatives2. rĕdemptio (v. supr.)3. conductio (v. supr.)4. pactum, pactio5. Expr. with verb6. auctōrāmentum (usu. = hire, wages)II. Of marriage • contract (subs.): I. In business: 1. lŏcātio (denoting the act of the party hiring services; to which rĕdemptio and sometimes conductio are the correlatives: see verb): the portico was being rebuilt by c., porticus locatione reficiebatur, Cic. Att. 4, 3, init.: to do anything according to the terms of a c., ex lege locationis aliquid facere, Edict. ap. Gell. 11, 17. 2. rĕdemptio (v. supr.): rashness in taking a c. (offering too much money for a tax), temeritas redemptionis, Cic. (In same sense is found also rĕdemptūra: Liv.) 3. conductio (v. supr.): Cic.: Liv. 4. pactum, pactio: v. agreement. 5. Expr. with verb: as, to let out by c., locare; to make money by c.s, *ex operibus, vectigalibus, etc., patrimonium s. rem familiarem augere (for which Liv. has, ex redempturis) to make a good or bad c., *bene, male locare, conducere: nimium magno conducere, Cic. (of farmers of taxes): in every kind of c., or engagement, in omni re contrahenda, Cic.: see verb. 6. auctōrāmentum (usu. = hire, wages): the terms of a most honourable, most vile c., verba honestissimi, turpissimi auc., Sen. Ep. 37, 1: see also bargain, engagement. II. Of marriage: pactio nuptialis, Liv.; pactum matrimonii, Tac.; tabulae sponsales, Hier., (Q.): to annul a marriage c., *pactionem nuptialem inducere: v. to annul: see also betrothal.