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This statute is indeed as obscure a one as any in the statute-book:;: it is difficult to ascertain its true meaning. Therefore I do not chuse to give any direct opinion about its extent; unless it should become absolutely necessary for me to do so.
Lord Mansfield, Case of John Wilkes (1770), 19 How. St. Tr. 1091. | ||
