"Any one may take upon him what surname, and as many surnames as he pleases without an Act of Parliament."
— Names

January 1, 1970

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Sir Joseph Jekyll, M.B., Barlow v. Bateman (1730), 3 P. Wms. 65; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 180.