ENGAGEMENT. This word is frequently used in the French law to signify not
only a contract, but the obligations arising from a quasi contract. The
terms obligations (q.v.) and engagements, are said to be synonymous 17
Toull. n. 1; but the Code seems specially to apply the term engagement to
those obligations which the law, imposes on a man without the intervention
of any contract, either on the part of the obligor or the obligee. Art.
1370.