 | Henry Charles Carey - 1859 - 542 sivua
...period. The farther we look back into history, tbe more we see all transactions and engagements nnder the influence of fixed customs. The reason is evident....adequate to the purpose. Custom is a barrier which, even iu the most oppressed condition of mankind, tyranny is forced in some degree to respect. To the industrious... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1866 - 594 sivua
...governing principle of contracts at a comparatively modern period. The farther we loc^k back into history, the more we see all transactions and engagements under...protector, where there are no laws or government adequate for the purpose. Custom is a barrier which, even in the most oppressed condition of mankind, tyranny... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1866 - 628 sivua
...governing principle of contracts, at a comparatively modem period. The farther we look back into history, the more we see all transactions and engagements under...evident. Custom is the most powerful protector of •>he weak against the strong ; their sole protector where there are no laws or government adequate... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1867 - 528 sivua
...governing principle of contracts, at a comparatively modern period. The farther we look back into history, the more we see all transactions and engagements under...adequate to the purpose. Custom is a barrier which, even iu the most oppressed condition of mankind, tyranny is forced hi some degree to respect. To the industrious... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey, Kate McLean - 1872 - 584 sivua
...governing principle of contracts at a comparatively modern period. The farther we look back into history, the more we see all transactions and engagements under...protector, where there are no laws or government adequate for the purpose. Custom is a barrier which, even in the most oppressed condition of mankind, tyranny... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1875 - 624 sivua
...comparatively modem period. The farther we look back into history, the more we see all transactions anil engagements under the influence of fixed customs....powerful protector of the weak against the strong ; their solo protector where there are no laws or government adequate to the purpose. Custom is a barrier which,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1884 - 718 sivua
...governing principle of contracts, at a comparatively modern period. The further we look back into history, the more we see all transactions and engagements under the influence of fixed customs. The relations, more especially between the land-owner and the cultivator, and the payments made by the... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - 1886 - 472 sivua
...suggestive and characteristic to be passed over. He says,1 "The further we look back into history, the more we see all transactions and engagements under...the weak against the strong: their sole protector when there are no laws or government adequate to the purpose." Mr. Mill was a utilitarian philosopher,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1887 - 736 sivua
...principle of contracts, at a compara" tively modern period. The further wo look back into history, the more we see all transactions and engagements under the influence of fixed customs. The relations, more especially between the land-owner and the cultivator, and the payments made by the... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1893 - 482 sivua
...3. The Antagonism of Competition and Custom. " The farther we look back into history," says Mill,1 " the more we see all transactions and engagements under...are no laws or government adequate to the purpose." This passage is a good illustration of the danger of taking broad surveys of universal history. A broad... | |
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Competition, in fact, has only become in any considerable degree the governing principle of contracts, at a comparatively modern period. The farther we look back into history, the more we see all transactions and engagements under the influence of fixed... 
