"The law has outgrown its primitive stage of formalism when the precise word was the sovereign talisman, and every sli…"

"There are very few ways to legally break a contract unilaterally."

"The way I heard it, a contract is a list of all the ways two people don’t trust each other."

"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."

"The movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract."

"There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give …"

"The primary office and purpose of a bill of lading, although by mercantile law and usage it is a symbol of the right …"

"There is no darker page in the annals of English jurisprudence than that which contains the law relating to bills of …"

"Judicial decision on one contract can rarely help us to the understanding of another."

"There is a great principle which I think ought to be adhered to by this Court, and by every Court where it can possib…"