Codification of the Law of Contract*

Abstract

Cross in 1960, '' because it is not a live issue in this country a t the present moment." 1 H e was right: it was not then a live issue.But it is today, for within five years statute declared it to be the duty of the Law Commission to review the law '' with a view to its systematic development and reform, including in particular the codification of such law. . .."Five weeks later the newly appointed Commission submitted its First Programme to the Lord Chancellor and included proposals for the codification of the law of contract, the law of landlord and tenant and, eventually, family law.'It is with the first of these that I am concerned.

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