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Stereotyped rules laid down by judicial writers cannot be accepted as…
Quote byCharles Bowen, Baron Bowen · 1831–1894
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Jacobs v. Credit Lyonnais (1884), L. R. 12 Q. B. D. 601; 53 L. J. Q. B. 159..
English (original)
Stereotyped rules laid down by judicial writers cannot be accepted as infallible canons of interpretation in these days, when commercial transactions have altered in character, and increased in complexity; and there can be no hard-and-fast rule by which to construe the multiform commercial agreements with which in modern times we have to deal.
— Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen
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