inter partes

INTER PARTES. This, in a technical sense, signifies an agreement professing 
in the outset, and before any stipulations are introduced, to be made 
between such and such persons as, for example, " This Indenture, made the 
_____ day of _____ 1848, between A B of the one part, and C D of the other." 
It is true that every contract is in one sense inter partes, because to be 
valid there must be two parties at least; but the technical sense of this 
expression is as above mentioned. Addis. on Contr. 9. 
     2. This being a solemn declaration, the effect of such introduction. is 
to make all the covenants, comprised in a deed to be covenants between the 
parties and none others; so that should a stipulation be found in the body 
of a deed by which "the said A B covenants with E F to pay him one hundred 
dollars," the words "with E F" are inoperative, unless they have been used 
to denote for whose benefit the stipulation may have been made, being in 
direct contradiction with what was previously declared, and C D alone can 
sue for the non-payment; it being a maxim that where two opposite intentions 
are expressed in a contract, the first in order shall prevail. 8 Mod. 116; 1 
Show. 58; 3 Lev. 138; Carth. 76; Roll. R. 196; 7 M. & IV. 63; But this rule 
does not 'apply to simple contracts inter partes. 2 D . & R. 277; 3 D. & R. 
273 Addis. on Contr. 244, 256. 
     3. When there are more than two sides to a contract inter partes, for 
example, a deed; as when it is made between A B, of the first part; C D, of 
the second; and E F, of the third, there is no objection to one covenanting 
with another in exclusion of the third. See 5 Co. 182; 8 Taunt. 245; 4 Ad. & 
Ell. N. S. 207; Addis. on Contr. 267.