The clause was consequently adopted, however, with an amendment suggested and introduced by me, compelling works from C retrospective operation if theretofore commenced with the knowledge or Sanction of the Survey Office.
It is not the less true that Mr. Edger was sitting with Mr. Mitchell when the latter on the first case under the eleventh section coming before him, declared the retrospective operation harsh, and declined to give effect to it, - and ... that Mr. Edgars returned as having dissented from "a decision clearly contrary to law and so resolved by the Chief Justice."
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It is not the less true that the authority of the Chief Justice himself continues to be vouched, - I presume without his knowledge - for the monstrous assertion that ... never, not even on the "Bench, uttered a syllable condemning the law laid down by the justice ... as to the now retrospective character of the section."
It is not the ... hue that the very gentlemen who, when discharging their sworn duty of...