"If every untrue statement which produces damage to another would found an action at law, a man might sue his neighbour for any mode of communicating erroneous information, such (for example) as having a conspicuous clock too slow, since plaintiff might thereby be prevented from attending to some duty or acquiring some benefit."
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Lord Denman, C.J., Barley v. Walford (1837), 9 Q. B. 208.
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