Modern English contract law is composed primarily of case law decided by the English courts following the Judicature Acts and supplemented by statutory reform.
However, a significant number of legal principles were inherited from recording decisions reaching back to the aftermath of the Norman Invasion.
[1] The case established the ratio that in covenant only damages are recoverable.
[2] A tenant entered a covenant for payment of rent of £20 per annum, for 4½ years.
However, the case was brought for non-payment of £100 which the plaintiff claimed for the rent.