Excerpt from Selected Cases Illustrating the Law of Contracts: Part I, the Principles of Contract; Part II, Special Commercial Contracts It is, I think, now generally admitted that only by referring to decided cases can a student understand the growth, the meaning, and limitations of Common Law principles, or learn to apply them successfully. As a student I often wished for a compact portable volume containing the facts and important parts of the judgments of cases illustrating the Law of Contracts. As a lecturer, I feel more than ever convinced of the need for such a work. The student even if he has ready access to the Reports is apt to waste much time and patience on unimportant parts thereof, sometimes missing altogether the important part. Moreover, a lecturer can explain and illustrate principles by reference to decided cases so much more successfully if the student has before him the essential facts and extracts from the judgments bearing upon the point. These amongst...