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Excerpt from Principles of Contract at Law and in Equity: Being a Treatise on the General Principles Concerning the Validity of Agreements, With a Special View to the Comparison of Law and Equity, and With References to the Indian Contract Act, and Occasionally to Roman, American, and Continental Law
A young writer might well be excused at that time for setting forth with some pains, if not always in the most appropriate places, things of which he had not been able to find an orderly account (at any rate in his own language) anywhere else. N ow there has been great change in all these matters. English students may read books in English on Roman law which they. Can safely trust, and we have an English Society of Comparative Legislation which publishes an excellent journal. I have endeavoured to bear this in mind in preparing the present edition, and have omitted or abridged much discussion which seemed to be no longer useful.
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