This week’s quote out of context: love & marriage

This week’s Law Quote out of Context, brought to you by the substantive realm of Contracts.

Read in a British Court of Appeals in 1919:

The common law does not regulate the form of agreements between spouses.  Their promises are not sealed with seals and sealing wax. The consideration that really obtains for them is natural love and affection which counts for so little in these cold Courts”