Excerpt from The History of the Doctrine of Consideration in English Law: Being the Yorke Prize Essay for the Year 1891 The following pages were written in Melbourne, where the writer had not the opportunity of seeing Professor Ames' valuable articles on the History of Assumpsit, which appeared in the Harvard Law Review for the months of April and May 1888. The references to those articles have since been added, with the permission of the authorities. The writer's indebtedness to Mr Justice Holmes' work on The Common Law will probably be manifest to any one who takes the trouble to read his essay; but he would deem himself wanting in gratitude did he not here make a formal and personal acknowledgment of it. The only other thing which it seems necessary to say is, that the rules of the University on the subject of the Yorke Prize compel the publication of the successful essay in a permanent form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands...