In engineering and its various subdisciplines, acceptance testing is a test conducted to determine if the requirements of a specification or contract are met.

A principal purpose of acceptance testing is that, once completed successfully, and provided certain additional ( contractually agreed ) acceptance criteria are met, the sponsors will then sign off on the system as satisfying the contract ( previously agreed between sponsor and manufacturer ), and deliver final payment.

A notarial instrument also fixes the date at which its parties are bound without prior delivery and acceptance ( as opposed to a deed or contract under common law ) and the data ( date certaine ) of the act's execution so as to safeguard against third party claims.

The main concern for commercial orders is that there must be agreement ( offer and acceptance ) for the order to be a contract.

Obtaining by false pretence the making, acceptance or endorsement of a bill of exchange or promissory note, the release or substitution of collateral or other security, an extension of time for payment of an obligation, or the release or alteration of the obligation of a written contract, is larceny and punishable by imprisonment.

This contract fixed the cross acceptance of Italian vehicles in Switzerland and vice versa without needing a second approval.

In contract law, Coase is often used as a method to evaluate the relative power of the parties during the negotiation and acceptance of a traditional or classical bargained-for contract.

At common law the requirement is acceptance of a repudiatory breach, which means the employer has indicated it no longer considers itself bound by an essential term of the contract, e. g. the requirement to pay wages or the requirement not to destroy the mutual bond of trust and confidence.

In his remaining time in the Court of Appeal, Birkett judged several notable cases, in particular Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists ( Southern ) Ltd 1 QB 401, and Entores Ltd v Miles Far East Corporation 2 QB 327, where the court made a landmark decision on acceptance of a contract in relation to Telex.

Under his government, came the acceptance of the French Commercial Treaty ( 1862 ) and the acknowledgment of a contract with Italy.

As every first year law student learns, such a contract consists of an offer and an acceptance.

Returning to the subject of the validity of a contract's existence ( as determined by its means of creation ): Courts in the UK have taken the view that online contracts are no different to ( a ) offline ones or ( b ) ones made electronically at a distance by telex, fax, or morse-code telegraphy, and accordingly can be valid subject to all the usual contract principles: there must be offer, acceptance, contractual intention and certainty as to terms.

Contract terms must be available before acceptance, as established in the 1971 case of Thornton v Shoe Lane Parking Ltd where a contract was entered into with a machine before terms were known ( and therefore those terms were not binding ).

The Court of Appeal held the essential elements of a contract were all present, including offer and acceptance, consideration and an intention to create legal relations.

" Third, communication of acceptance is not necessary for a contract when people's conduct manifests an intention to contract.

And, since 1893, law students have been introduced to the mysteries of the unilateral contract through the vehicle of Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. and taught to repeat, as a sort of magical incantation of contract law, that in the case of unilateral contracts performance of the act specified in the offer constitutes acceptance, and need not be communicated to the offeror.

Under the formalist theory of contract, every contract must have six elements: offer, acceptance, consideration, meeting of the minds, capacity and legality.

By the spring of 1956 they had a near-final design, which was awarded a preproduction contract for 1, 000 M18A1 claymores designated T-48E1 during testing.

Unit testing tests a module in isolation, to check that it meets its contract assuming its subcontractors meet theirs.

An early success story for TI-GSI came in the 1950s when GSI was able ( under a Top Secret government contract ) to monitor the Soviet Union's underground nuclear weapons testing from outcrop bedrock found in Oklahoma.

In testing how well these elements fit and work together, Rawls based a key test of legitimacy on the theories of social contract.

NRL was also responsible for developing the Vanguard rocket launch vehicles through a contract to the Martin Company ( which had built the Viking rockets ), developing and installing the satellite tracking system, and designing, constructing, and testing the satellites.

Toxicology testing, also known as safety testing, is conducted by pharmaceutical companies testing drugs, or by contract animal testing facilities, such as Huntingdon Life Sciences, on behalf of a wide variety of customers.

As part of that contract, a site north of the factory was used as the smallest airport in the world as a flight testing base.

Effective October 1, 2007, the US Department of Energy awarded Bechtel partnership LLNS LLC the contract to operate Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Bechtel has a presence, through various partnerships, in the bulk of the US nuclear weapons facilities, including Los Alamos National Laboratory ( design and pit production ), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( design ), Savannah River Site ( nuclear materials ), Hanford Site ( nuclear materials ), Pantex Plant ( assembly / disassembly ), Y-12 National Security Complex ( nuclear materials ), and the Nevada Test Site ( subcritical testing ).

Unfortunately, the contract was instead awarded to the somewhat inferior Curtiss P-40, but the Army Air Corps were very pleased with the aircraft's medium-and high-altitude performance and ordered 13 additional AP-4s for testing.

It adds to the functionality of C ++ by also implementing design by contract, unit testing, true modules, garbage collection, first class arrays, associative arrays, dynamic arrays, array slicing, nested functions, inner classes, closures, anonymous functions, compile time function execution, lazy evaluation and has a reengineered template syntax.

In January 1967 the Air Force authorized Project 3169 as the formal engineering program for development of precision guided munitions, renewing its contract with TI in March to redesign the M117 kit, with a very aggressive timeline, projecting deployment to Vietnam for combat testing in one year.

Chiron was targeted because of a contract with Huntingdon Life Sciences, a New Jersey-based animal testing contractor.

It weighs a combined ( 11. 7 pounds for the launcher, 18 pounds for the rocket ) and the contract is worth providing the U. S. Marine Corps is satisfied with testing and follows through with plans to buy 1, 717 new launchers.

There is no residency requirement, and academic credit may be awarded for course work completed successfully at other accredited institutions, academic instruction sponsored by noncollegiate organizations, military training evaluations, video-based and online courses offered by Charter Oak, testing, portfolio assessment, contract learning, and for learning acquired through many licensure and certification programs.

Magna ’ s capabilities include the design, engineering, testing and manufacture of exterior systems, interior systems, seating systems, closure systems, vision systems, powertrain systems, electronic systems, roof systems, body & chassis systems, hybrid & electric vehicle systems, and vehicle engineering & contract assembly.

In 2003, a contract to manage the testing of munitions was awarded to the defence contractors QinetiQ, and they also control access to the island.

Recent previous investigations include the University of Cambridge and Covance's contract testing laboratory in Germany.

Common medical laboratory uses include in vivo and animal testing to determine therapeutic value, toxicology testing by contract research organizations to determine drug safety, and analysis by drug test and forensic toxicology labs for the purposes of evaluating human exposure.

Users of the system perform these tests, which developers derive from the client's contract or the user requirements specification.

Currently, three schools exist in Barcelonnette: a public nursery school, a public elementary school, and a private school ( under a contract by which the teachers are paid by the national education system ).

TWA sued Burroughs for non-fulfillment of the contract, but Burroughs counter-sued, stating that the basic system did work and that the problems were in TWA's applications software.

In 1996 Tramtrack Croydon Limited ( TCL ) won a 99-year Private Finance Initiative ( PFI ) contract to design, build, operate and maintain the Tramlink system.

The contract for the initial system was awarded to GEC Mowlem in 1984 and the system was constructed from 1985 to 1987 at a cost of £ 77 million.

Another 128 million euros contract would have been signed, according to Tripoli, with EADS for a TETRA radio system.

The European Commission also announced that the 85 million euro contract for system support covering industrial services required by ESA for integration and validation of the Galileo system had been awarded to Thales Alenia Space.

Manorialism, an essential element of feudal society, was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the villa system of the Late Roman Empire, was widely practised in medieval western and parts of central Europe, and was slowly replaced by the advent of a money-based market economy and new forms of agrarian contract.

These include muscles, which are able to contract and control locomotion, and a nervous system, which sends and processes signals.

* Roman ( bidding system ), a contract bridge bidding system

Sather also takes inspiration from other programming languages and paradigms: iterators, design by contract, abstract classes, multiple inheritance, anonymous functions, operator overloading, contravariant type system.

Douglas Aircraft received the prime contract in May, and in turn subcontracted to Northrop for the guidance system, Aerojet for the propulsion system, and General Electric for the reentry vehicle.

When the bladder is stretched, this signals the parasympathetic nervous system to contract the detrusor muscle.

* Eli Whitney, holding a 1798 United States government contract for the manufacture of muskets, is introduced by Oliver Wolcott, Jr. to the French concept of interchangeable parts, an origin of the American system of manufacturing.

This led to a system where most local television stations were independently owned, but received programming from the network through a franchising contract, except in a few big cities that had network owned-and-operated stations ( O & O ) and independent stations.

After a selection process by General Medaris and Dr. Arthur Rudolph, the Martin Company ( later Martin Marietta after a merger in 1961 ) was awarded a CPFF ( cost-plus-fixed-fee ) contract for research, development, and initial production of the Pershing system under the technical supervision and concept control of the government.