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Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton on Poverty

1817–1907 England

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If the plaintiff could have gone away from the dangerous place without incurring the risk of losing his means of livelihood, the case might have been different; but he was obliged to be there; his poverty, not his will, consented to incur the danger.

Thrussell v. Handyside, L.R. 20 Q.B.D. 359, 364 (1888)

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