The term executory contract assumes a specialized meaning in some areas of law.

You could revoke a promise, and the concept of an executory contract was unknown.

However, a provision needs to be recognized if the executory contract becomes onerous to the entity.

The year also includes an extraordinary gain of $2,595,000 from renegotiation of executory contract.

The standard feature of executory contracts is that each party to the contract has duties remaining under the contract.

The bankruptcy trustee may reject certain executory contracts and unexpired leases.

However, anticipatory repudiation only applies to a bilateral executory contract with non-performed duties on both sides.

An executory contract is a contract which has not yet been fully performed, that is to say, fully executed.

A contract that has been fully performed by one party but not by the other party is classified as an executory contract.

In this context, a trustee may assume or reject any executory contract or unexpired lease subject to court approval.

Thus, a contract which is partially performed or wholly unperformed is termed as executory contract.

In case of an executory contract, IAS 37 does not apply and neither an asset nor a liability is recorded.

In bankruptcy law, an executory contract is a contract in which continuing obligations exist on both sides of the contract.

For example, in some districts a contract for deed is an executory contract, while in others it is not.

Some contracts, known as executory contracts, may be rejected if canceling them would be financially favorable to the company and its creditors.

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.

In Roman law, the right of rescission or revocation of an executory contract on failure of the other party to fulfill his part of the agreement.

While a contract is being performed, it is called an executory contract, and when it is completed it is an executed contract.

Executory contract: An executory contract is one where one or both the parties to the contract have still to perform their obligations in future.

The purpose behind requiring writing and signatures for executory contracts of donation of anything but land is apparently to make sure that the donor has a serious intention to conclude the contract.

EXECUTORY CONTRACT - A contract which has not been performed by all parties to it.

In bankruptcy, some regions will interpret it as an executory contract that can be rejected, while others will treat it as a debt to be paid out of the bankruptcy trust.

General bankruptcy principles hold that executory contracts are avoidable in practice, because neither party has fulfilled its part of the bargain and thus breach by either party only gives rise to expectation damages.

An executory contract is defined as a contract under which neither party has performed any of its obligations (e.g. delivering an object and paying for that object) or both parties have partially performed their obligations to an equal extent.

As for the sale of land under an executory contract, traditional case law agrees that ademption occurs upon the death of the testator and that the proceeds of sale, when the closing occurs, should not pass to the specific devisee of the property.