Excerpt from The History of the Doctrine of Consideration in English Law: Being the Yorke Prize Essay for the Year 1891 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 of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.