"The customer pays his money and gets a ticket. He cannot refuse it. He cannot get the money back. He may protest to the machine, even swear at it. But it will remain unmoved."
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Anglicans from the United KingdomCentenariansUniversity of Oxford facultyUniversity of Oxford alumniJudges from England
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Thornton v Shoe Lane Parking Ltd [1971] 2QB 163; 1 All ER 686.
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