They say this of all contracts, that are arbitrarily forbidden; although, naturally and intrinsically, they have as valid an obligation as any others that men ever enter into, or as any that courts enforce.
Spooner argues that contracts forbidden by law still hold intrinsic validity.
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When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.
That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.