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It is essential, when persons in trade come into this Court, that they should remember that the administration of equity is founded on perfect truth, and that if persons attempt to mislead the public by stating that which is not true, this Court will restrain them upon a clear case being made out against them.

— John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly Cocks v. Chandler (1871)

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