a. [f. L. contractu-s CONTRACT + -AL: cf. mod.F. contractuel.] Of the nature of a contract; pertaining or relating to a contract.
1861. Maine, Anc. Law, 169. The contractual relation of the servant to his master.
1884. Sir C. S. C. Bowen, in Law Rep., 28 Ch. Div. 108. The case … did not decide that contractual obligations disappeared as circumstances changed.
