Edward Jenks (1861–1939) British legal scholar
Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter VIII, Methods Of Alienation, p. 109
“No man should be allowed to have an interest against his duty.”
Thompson v. Havelock (1808), 1 Camp. 528.
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