"Where a man calls himself by a name which is not his name, he is telling a falsehood."
— Names

January 1, 1970

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William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher, M.R., Reddaway v. Banham (1895), L. R. 2 Q. B. D. [1895], p. 293; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 180.