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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.

— Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton Thrussell v. Handyside, L.R. 20 Q.B.D. 359, 364 (1888)

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No system of judicature can be suggested in which occasionally failure to insure complete justice may not arise.

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Every man ought to have the fullest opportunity of establishing his innocence if he can.

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Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand.

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