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Promise, an undertaking to do or not to do a certain thing. Promises in law are either express or implied; express, when founded upon the express contract or declaration of the party promising: implied, when the promise is inferred from his acts, conduct, or peculiar position. Thus the law will always infer a promise by a debtor to pay a debt due to his creditor.