“As a general rule, I beg that it may be understood, that a case is not to be cut into parts, but that when it is known what the question in issue is, it must be met at once.”

— Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough

Rees v. Smith and others (1816), 2 Starkie, 32.

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