a contract that the parties thereto shall have come to some agreement. By this is meant that the parties are of one mind upon some proposed transaction, and that they have declared this fact - Page 27, Chapter IV, Volume 24 of the modern business Text.Even the best of maxims, as experience shows, will at times run astray. For instance, somebody once said that poverty is no crime. It is true for what he meant. But by and by the fine sentiment falls into bad company; we even find it sticking up for in dolence and vice. Only a sharp jolt can bring it to its senses, and at length some other philosopher gives it one. Poverty he admits, is no crime, and adds, it is only punished as such!There's a piece of grit in this revised version of the maxim that we can borrow to put a new edge on an other good maxim that's gone dull. People say the man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. That, too, is true, no matter who first said it, lawyer or layman; experience has proved it. But look at the base uses to which it has descended. Look at the people - business men among them - who lay hold on it to excuse and justify their wilful ignorance of the law. But ignorance of the law, as another legal maxim has it, excuses no one. Ignorance of thelaw in other words, is no crime; it is only punished as such!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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