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Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come…”
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Bagehot compares the complexity of law to the winding streets of cities, illustrating the convoluted nature of legal systems.
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