"It seems to me that whenever circumstances arise in the ordinary business of life in which, if two persons were ordinarily honest and careful, the one of them would make a promise to the other, it may properly be inferred that both of them understood that such a promise was given and accepted."
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William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher, M.R., Ex parte Ford (1885), L. R. 16 Q. B. D. 307; 55 L. J. Q. B. 407.
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