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Beginnings
2004 was the 400th anniversary of
Semayne's Case;
KB.
The familiar quote is:
"The house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress {para 1}."
- *First endorsed as being applicable in Canada in
Eccles v. Bourque;
SCC.
- *First endorsed as being Charter applicable in
Colet, F.;
SCC.
- "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail,
its roof may shake - the winds may blow through it the storm may enter - but the King of England
cannot enter, all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement
[William Pitt, First Earl of Chatham, Speech, House of Commons (U.K.) March 1763 Coke 1 & 8]."
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