"If an infant commit an assault, or utter slander, God forbid that he should not be answerable for it in a Court of justice."
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Lord Kenyon, C.J., Jennings v. Rundall (1799), 8 T.R. 337; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 104.
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