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Quote of the Day: A Contractual Life

By Hanna

The contracts are here not to guide my steps through the world, but to warn me against straying.Verlyn Klinkenborg writing about the multitude of contracts we encounter on a daily basis.

Actually, contracts do both.  They create rights as well as duties.  Like white lines on a highway, contracts establish boundaries.  They keep us from bumping into each other and allow us to move quickly from point A to B.  It’s unfortunate when people view them as limiting devices instead of facilitating devices.  There would be a lot more problems if we didn’t have those little white lines.

Full post as published by Legal Literacy on August 26, 2008 (boomark / email).