Excerpt from The Law of War and Contract, Including the Present War Decisions at Home and Abroad No field of English law has been so much affected by the great European war as the law of contract. In addition to the effect of the common law, called into existence on the declaration of hostilities between Great Britain and her enemies, came the consequences, various and wide-reaching, resulting from numerous Statutes, Proclamations, Orders in, and of, Council, and Regulations - in short, emergency legislation. Relations of all kind were affected: Banker and Customer, Master and Servant, Principal and Agent, Vendor and Purchaser. Immense interests were touched, extensive centres of trade disturbed - the insurance world, the shipping community and the common markets of sale. For over three years legal adjudications on complex points have poured out in an unending stream, at which commercial men are much confused, practising lawyers perplexed, and even some Judges embarrassed. The author, therefore, proposes to collect all the decisions due to the present war, as also some earlier war cases, under appropriate principles of law, in the following pages, and so to arrange them that those who have little leisure at their disposal can by means of separate chapters, clear marginal notes and an exhaustive index, find what they may be seeking for with as little delay as possible. 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.