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It seems also, that as the Just is of two kinds, the unwritten

and the legal, so Friendship because of advantage is of two

kinds, what may be called the Moral, and the Legal: and the most

fruitful source of complaints is that parties contract

obligations and discharge them not in the same line of

Friendship. The Legal is upon specified conditions, either purely

tradesmanlike from hand to hand or somewhat more gentlemanly as

regards time but still by agreement a quid pro quo.

In this Legal kind the obligation is clear and admits of no

dispute, the friendly element is the delay in requiring its

discharge: and for this reason in some countries no actions can

be maintained at Law for the recovery of such debts, it being

held that they who have dealt on the footing of credit must be

content to abide the issue.