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How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• common law \should not be followed where changes in conditions have made it obsolete”; court has \never hesitated to exercise the usual judicial function of revising and enlarging the common law”
• “The common law, particularly as derived from the common law of Maryland, is the fundamental part of the law in this jurisdiction to which we look in the absence of statutory enactment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).