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Abuse of Rights

2002
Abstract For more than a century, the dispute between Edward Pickles and Bradford over water supply has been accepted as slamming the common law door shut on the civil law doctrine of abuse of rights. Although the litigation concerned real property and water law, and possibly could have been confined to that sphere, its simple and ...
Michael Taggart
exaly   +2 more sources

Abuse of Rights

The Cambridge Law Journal, 1933
The theory of the abuse of rights is one which has been rejected by our law, with the result that the ancient brocard ‘dura lex sed lex’ finds its most vivid illustration in the present-day decisions of the Anglo-American Courts. The absolutist view of rights which is a feature of the Common Law was summed up by Lord Macnaghten in trenchant language ...
openaire   +1 more source

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