140 Macaulay's Minute on Indigo Planting. 



majority of contracts were not performed without 

 legal investigation and decision, the world could not 

 go on for a day. The effect of a system of registra- 

 tion, such as that which I have been considering, 

 would be that every contract without exception 

 would be the subject of legal investigation and deci- 

 sion before it was made." 



