Excerpt from The Law of Contracts After teaching the law of contract for twenty years, I have consented, at the earnest and continued solicita tion of my colleagues in our Law Faculty, to formulate some of the results of this long experience, and to digest for publication the mass of notes and material gathered. The desire to treat this subject in my own way, and in accordance with my own ideas, has given me courage to continue my work. 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.