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Excerpt from The Revised Reports, 1846-1847, Vol. 72: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, From the Year 1785, as Are Still of Practical Utility
It Was still arguable in 1846 that a corporation could not be indicted for a misfeasance. The Court of Queen's Bench rejected that argument in R. V. Great North of England Ry. Co., p. 262. Working piecemeal and deciding no more than the facts required on each occasion, our Courts have not worked out many comprehensive theories in the metaphysics of the law but they have almost certainly been saved from adopting many bad ones. If in the sixteenth or even the eighteenth century they had considered as a Whole the question utrum universitas delinquere possit, modern judges might have found themselves in a sad entanglement.
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