"This book is concerned with the history of contract law over a two hundred year period stretching between 1670 and 1870. Inevitably it is also about how the Co

The foundations for modern contract law were laid between 1670 and 1870. Rather than advancing a purely chronological account, this examination of the developme

"This book is concerned with the history of contract law over a two hundred year period stretching between 1670 and 1870. Inevitably it is also about how the Co

This book considers the development of contract law doctrine in England from 1670 to 1870.

English contract law provides the invisible framework that underpins and enables much contracting activity in society, yet the role of the law in policing many