Contractual Limitations Quotes



At the time, in many states married women could not control their own inheritance, could not sign a contract, owned no part of a family business that a women might have founded and worked in her entire life, could not be an executor of a will—even if it were her husband’s.


During the early years of the New Deal, gold and silver certificates were ordered turned in to the U. S. Treasury, at a devalued price, and Congress passed a joint resolution declaring provisions in public and private contracts for payment in gold contrary to public policy and unenforceable in the courts. In a landmark decision on the contract issue, the Supreme Court ruled that:. control of gold and the monetary supply