“Notwithstanding all the care and anxiety of the persons who frame Acts of Parliament to guard against every event, it frequently turns out that certain cases were not foreseen.”

— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Farmer v. Legg (1797), 7 T. R. 190.

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