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2449	Holmes, Oliver Wendell	The Common Law			.txt	text/plain	132979	9672	80	acts as by ordinary human laws are likely to happen in the course it was called, gave way to an action under the new law to enforce In such cases the law goes on a new principle, different from general theory of criminal liability, as it stands at common law. view, broadly stated, under the common law a man acts at his of those cases to trespasses against the person, lest the law such cases as presenting mixed questions of law and fact. follow, the act is generally wrong in the sense of the law. merely the principle of Southcote's Case and the common law of like case, and Lord Holt stated the principle: "If a man takes out by the law exists in the case of a given person, he is said not one, the law gave the owner a writ of trespass on the case.	./cache/2449.txt	./txt/2449.txt