Contract, Freedom Of

Contract, freedom of. Modern legislation has fre-quently interfered with freedom of contract, as, e.g., by invalidating contracts, as, e.g., by invalidat-ing contracts exempting railway companies from their liabilities as carriers of goods by the 7th s. of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854, or depriving a tenant of his right to kill hares and rabbits under the Ground Game Act,1880; and see a list of such in validations in Chitty on Contacts, 18th Edn., 778.