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Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.
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1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 135.
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1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 135.

 

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