“It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.”

—  Edward Jenks

Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter V, The Law Of Chattels, p. 66

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