Spencer Heath Archive

Item 605

Recollected by Spencer MacCallum immediately after conversation

No date

Common Law always favors society, whereas statute law almost invariably favors particular interests. Whereby property-owning as a principle of Common Law asserts the right of the members of society to have con­tracts made in their behalf — to make contract relationships. Common Law is social; Norman and statutory law is predatory.

Common Laws as they develop in England and elsewhere never favor the purveyor; they always favor the consumer, the public.