"Parties cannot by consent give to the Court a power which it would not have without it."
— Consent

January 1, 1970

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William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher, M.R., In re Ayhner; Ex parte Bischofishiem (1887), L. J. 57 Q. B. 168.