"So many affidavits, so studiously and artfully penned, to be safely sworn in one sense and read in another, are an aggravation."
— Affidavit

January 1, 1970

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Lord Mansfield, Rex v. Beardmore (1759), 2 Burr. Part IV. 795; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 10.