1.   The contract gave Stan three and a half years based in Edinburgh with carte blanche to roam about collecting fossils.

2.   The distinction is important because the executory contract creates only personal rights between the parties themselves whereas the executed contract gives the buyer an interest in the goods.

3.   An option contract gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy a certain amount of a specific security within a predetermined time period.

4.   An option contract gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell a share at a specific price at the exercise date.

5.   An option contract gives the purchaser the right to buy or sell the underlying security at a prespecified price by a certain date.

6.   A forward supply contract gives the purchaser the right to invest interest paid on the Treasury securities.

7.   A new four-year contract gives Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers employees salary increases, pension plan improvements and extra pay for weekend work.

8.   A lease contract gives you the capitalized cost, which is the price of the vehicle plus some fees.

9.   Again, the previous government is partly to blame, allowing rival couriers to operate against LibanPost, whose contract officially gave it a monopoly.

10.   But physicians say the contracts give Blue Cross and other insurers too much control over medical decisions.