Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1785

Pencil notes by Heath on the occasion of a talk with his grandson, Irvan T. O’Connell, Jr.

May 26, 1955

 

/Bibliographic Reference:/

 

Old English Land Law – Teutonic

See “Laws Relating to Property”

Cyc. Brit Vol. 13, 804

Percy Bordwell, LLM, PhD.

Iowa State University

First two paragraphs

 

1. History – Out of nomadism by way of Land Ownership

 

2. Right behavior comes before right thinking — understanding

 

3. The practice of contract — market — is the rational order

in Society – Ratios between numerical magnitudes — numbers

 

4.  Interest of the individual and that of Society the same. Contract reconciles all.