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Conditions in the Law of Contract
Arthur Corbin
Yale Law School
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CONDITIONS IN
IN THE
THE LAW
LAW OF
OF CONTRACT'
CONTRAGP
CONDITIONS
ARTHUR
CORBIN
R L.L. CORBiN
ARTH
Professor of
of Law,
Law, Yale
Yale University
University
Professor
In order
order to
to understand
understand any
any legal
legal system
system itit isis necessary
necessary to
to consider
consider
In
the purely
purely physical
ph.ysical facts
facts of
of life
life apart
apart from
from the
the legal
legal relations
relations that
that
the
mental
are
consequent
upon
such
facts.
Legal
relations
are
merely
mental
merely
are
relations
Legal
facts.
such
upon
consequent
are
concepts which
which are
are useful
useful in
in enabling
enabling us
us to
to foresee
foresee the
the physical
physical facts
facts
concepts
no
have
of
the
future.
Disregarding
the
multitudes
of
facts
that
have
no
that
facts
of
multitudes
the
Disregarding
future.
of the
remain-the
effect
whatever
upon
existing
legal
relations,
those
that
remain-the
that
those
relations,
legal
existing
upon
whatever
effect
operative facts-must
facts-must...