“If a man who makes to another person, upon a solemn occasion, an assertion, upon which that person acts, he lies under an obligation to make good his assertion.”

— John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly

In Re Ward (1862), 31 Beav. 7.

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English Whig politician and judge 1802–1874

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