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natural  justice  so  obvious  as  that  a  right  of  repetition  must  exist  in  such  a
case,  and  that  what  belongs  to  one  man  cannot  be  acquired  by  another,
without  the  consent  or  the  fault  of  the  owner.  But  we  will  briefly  recur
to  the  cases,  which,  as  we  think,  have  recognized  the  common  law  on  this
subject,  and  see  if  the  principle  which  we  have  advanced  is  not  asserted
or  recognized,  with  more  or  less  distinctness,  in  all  of  them.
