“No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole.”

—  Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Doe d. Willis and others v. Martin and others (1790), 4 T. R. 65.

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