Law of Contract
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The branch of English law governing contracts, cited as predominantly judge-made.
Nine-tenths, at least, of the law of contract, and the whole, or nearly the whole, of the law of torts are not to be discovered in any volume of the statutes.
The Law of Torts
The body of law governing agreements between parties, used throughout as a contrast case for defining tort.
That which is of contract has come to fill so vast a bulk in the whole frame of modern law that it may, with a fair appearance of equality, be set over against everything which is independent of contract.
Default or miscarriage in certain occupations of a public nature is likewise a tort, although the same facts may constitute a breach of contract, and may, at the option of the aggrieved party, be treated as such.