[SUB- 9.] A contract, or one of several contracts, for carrying out a previous contract or a part of it.
1817. W. Selwyn, Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4), IV. 1037. If the defendant was not liable, the plaintiff might be obliged to sue all the parties who had subcontracts before he could obtain redress.
1885. Law Rep., 15 Q. B. Div. 87. The contract with the plaintiff was to enable him to fulfil a sub-contract with his customer.
attrib. 1887. Pall Mall Gaz., 25 Nov., 11. Making it a condition of all Government clothing contracts that they must not be worked out under the sweating or sub-contract system.
