"We cannot try the merits upon affidavit."
— Affidavit

January 1, 1970

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Lord Mansfield, Rex v. Blooer (1760), 2 Burr. Part IV. 1045; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 9.