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Quotes from Cowan v. Duke of Buccleuch — James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance

1816–1899 England

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There is no doubt whatever that as far as common law is concerned, the Courts in this country have been bound, most of them, by inflexible rules handed down in great measure from the time of the Plantagenets, and until certain modern statutes were passed there was no possibility of altering or improving them.

Cowan v. Duke of Buccleuch (1876)

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