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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.