Leonine Contract: Difference between revisions

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''"I, being older, perhaps believe in it even more," answered M. Louis smiling. "But surely it is a very old principle of law that [[Trope Namer|a leonine contract]] is not a free contract. And it is [[Hypocrisy]] to pretend that a bargain between a starving man and a man with all the food is anything but a leonine contract." He glanced up at the fire-escape, a ladder leading up to the balcony of a very high attic above. "I live in that garret; or rather on that balcony. If I fell off the balcony and hung on a spike, so far from the steps that somebody with a ladder could offer to rescue me if I gave him a hundred million francs, I should be quite morally justified in using his ladder and then telling him to go to hell for his hundred million. [[Hell]], indeed, is not out of the picture; for it is a sin of injustice to force an advantage against the desperate." ''|'''[[G. K. Chesterton]]''', "The Unmentionable Man"}}