 | Académie de droit international de La Haye - Law - 1989 - 448 pages
...employee or the small producer lacks the skill and the economic strength of the other party. The idea that "men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting"298 is losing ground. It is being realized that for the weak party to a consumer contract... | |
 | Richard Lempert, Joseph Sanders - Law - 1989 - 541 pages
...contract, as one English judge put it: ... there is one thing more than any other which public polict requires, it is that men of full age and competent...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held good and shall he enforced... | |
 | Carole Chui, Derek Roebuck - Law - 1991 - 190 pages
...Sampson ( 1 875) 1 9 Eq 462, Sir George Jessel MR said: If there is one thing more than another which public policy requires, it is that men of full age...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood - Law - 1992 - 685 pages
...Jessel, MR, in 1875 (Printing and Numerical Registering Co v. Samp (1875) LR 19 Eq. 462 at 465): . . . if there is one thing which more than another public...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906
...public policy"; and in another case (Printing etc. Co. V. Sampson, LR 19 Eq. 465), the same jurist said: "If there is one thing which more than another public...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced... | |
 | R. Rayfuse - Law - 1993 - 750 pages
...Jessel, MR , in 1875 (Printing and Numerical Registering Co v. Samp (1875) LR 19 Eq. 462 at 465): ... if there is one thing which more than another public...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced... | |
 | W. David Slawson - Law - 1996 - 224 pages
...particular." In 1875, Sir George Jessel, Master of the Rolls, declared in Printing Company v. Sampson:1 [I]f there is one thing which more than another public...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced... | |
 | Reinhard Zimmermann, Daniel Visser, D. P. Visser - History - 1996 - 892 pages
...nineteenthcentury contract theory as articulated in Sir George Jessel MR's celebrated statement that 'if there is one thing which more than another public...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall not be... | |
 | Reinhard Zimmermann - Law - 1996 - 1241 pages
...circumstances be honoured.214 Thus, it became the hallowed basis of "classical" contract doctrine. "(I|f there is one thing which more than another public...shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced... | |
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It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age... 
