“When we find a series of decisions running down from the time of Sir William Grant, we should be very cautious, and very slow to overrule them.”

— Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley

In re Pickard (1894), L. R. 3 C. D. [1894], p. 710; in reference to the case of Finch v. Squire (1804), 10 Ves. 41.

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