Quote#Nature
When a body of twenty or two thousand or two hundred thousand men…
Quote byA. V. Dicey · 1835–1922
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Combination Laws as Illustrating the Relation Between Law and Opinion in England During the Nineteenth Century", Harvard Law Review Vol. 17, June 1904, p. 33.
English (original)
When a body of twenty or two thousand or two hundred thousand men bind themselves together to act in a particular way for some common purpose, they create a body which, by no fiction of law but from the very nature of things, differs from the individuals of whom it is constituted.
— A. V. Dicey
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