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- ↑ Boase, Frederic (1906), Modern English Biography, vol. 4, pp. 628–629
- ↑ Fitzmaurice, Andrew (2010), "The Justification of King Leopold II's Congo Enterprise by Sir Travers Twiss", Law and Politics in British Colonial Thought, Springer, p. 110, ISBN 9780230114388
- ↑ Taggart, Michael (2004), "Alexander Chaffers and the genesis of the Vexatious Actions Act 1896", Cambridge Law Journal, 63 (3): 656–684, doi:10.1017/S0008197304006713, S2CID 145410283
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