PERFIDY

The act or one who has engaged his ralth to do a thing, and does not do it, but does the contrary. Wolff, Inst. I 390. PERFORM, To perform an obligation or contract ls to execute, fulfill, or accomplish, ~t according to its_ terms. Thls may consist.either in action on the part or the person bound. by the contract or 1n omi ion to act, according to the nature or the subject-matter; but the term ls usually applied to an:r action 1n discharge of a contract other than payment. [s. 898]