“Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.”

— William Blackstone , book Commentaries on the Laws of England

Book I, ch. 18 http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/blackstone_bk1ch18.asp: Of Corporations.
Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769)

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English jurist, judge and Tory politician 1723–1780

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