Philippe Verdy scripsit:
> Some other conventions use in English is the double-space after a
> sentence-ending dot: this convention does not exist in French, and I do
> think that it exist in English as a way to represent a large (cadratin
> minimum width) space after this dot.
It's a typewriter-based convention, and is suitable for monowidth fonts
only. The space after a sentence-ending full stop in justified contexts
is no bigger than any other space, in general.
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Promises become binding when there is a meeting of the minds and consideration
is exchanged. So it was at King's Bench in common law England; so it was
under the common law in the American colonies; so it was through more than
two centuries of jurisprudence in this country; and so it is today.
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