books.google.ie - Anglo-American private law has been a far more complex phenomenon than has been usually recognized. Attempts to reduce it to a single explanatory principle, or to a precisely classified or categorized map, scheme, or diagram, are liable to distort the past by omitting or marginalizing material inconsistent...http://books.google.ie/books/about/Dimensions_of_Private_Law.html?id=niVM2zzSUMQC&q=contract+law&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareDimensions of Private Law