“The director is really a watch-dog, and the watch-dog has no right without the knowledge of his master to take a sop from a possible wolf.”

— Charles Bowen

In re North Australian Territory Co. (1891), L. J. Rep. 61 C. D. 135.

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English judge 1835–1894

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