Implied Agreement Quotes

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

The law has outgrown its primitive stage of formalism when the precise word was the sovereign talisman, and every slip was fatal. It takes a broader view to-day. A promise may be lacking, and yet the whole writing may be "instinct with an obligation," imperfectly expressed. If that is so, there is a contract.

What is done tacitly must be held as if it had been done expressly .

Silence gives consent.

Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.

A photo does not mean I agree with anything someone says.

One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.

Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says.

In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.

Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.