3 & 4 Vict. c. 83. 3 & 4 Vict. c. 35. 4 & 5 Vict. c. 54. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 39. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 122. s. 43. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 21. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 21. ss. 5, 6. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 66. s. 16. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 110. s. 26. 8 Vict. c. 16. s. 21. 155. 158 - 155, 156. 158 161, 162 171 1 Will. 4. c. 68. 1 Will. 4. c. 68. s. 210. 3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 23. 6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 76. 7 Will. 4. THE LAW OF CONTRACTS. LECTURE I. ON THE NATURE AND CLASSIFICATION OF CONTRACTS, AND ON CONTRACTS BY DEED. Jurisdiction. THE whole practice of our English Courts of Com- Common Law mon Law, if we except their criminal jurisdiction, with which we have at present no concern, and their administration of the law of real property, of which, as Real Property Law forms the subjectmatter of another distinct class of Lectures, it is not my intention to speak,—if, I say, we except these two heads, to which may possibly be added those cases which fall within the fiscal jurisdiction peculiar to the Court of Exchequer, the whole of the remaining subjects with which the jurisdiction of a Court of Common Law is conversant may be distributed into two classes, Contracts and Torts. Of this you can easily satisfy yourselves by putting to your own minds any conceivable case of legal inquiry. If it do not involve a question of criminal law, or of the title to land, or of Exchequer jurisdiction, you |