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That was putting the case in a nutshell. But it is one thing to put a case like Shelley's in a nutshell and another thing to keep it there.

— Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten

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Source: On the subject of the rule in Shelley's Case (1 Rep. 104a); reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 170.
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