CONTRACTOR - Black's Law Dictionary

What is CONTRACTOR? Definition of CONTRACTOR in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.

This  term is strictly applicable to any person  who enters  into a contract (Kent v. Railroad Co., 12 N.Y.  628),  but is commonly reserved to designate one  who, for a fixed price, undertakes to procure the performance of works on a large scale, or the  furnishing of goods in large quantities, whether for the public  or a company  or individual. McCarthy v. Second Parish, 71 Me. 318, 36 Am.Rep. 320.

One  who  in pursuit of independent business undertakes to perform a job or piece of work,  retaining in himself control of means, method and manner  of accomplishing the desired  result. Marion Malleable Iron Works  v. Baldwin, 82 Ind.App. 206, 145 N.E. 559, 560.

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