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sitting in the House of Lords held by a 3–2 majority that although the damage was lawful, it was the equivalent of requisitioning the property. Any act of requisition was done for the good of the public, at the expense of the individual proprietor, and for that reason, the proprietor should be
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861:BP Shipping
726:Law Society
682:Fiscal fine
317:retroactive
307:dissented.
305:Lord Hodson
284:Inner House
272:Outer House
167:Lord Upjohn
162:Lord Pearce
157:Lord Hodson
115:Outer House
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983:Oil fields
940:Facilities
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96:Transcript
73:2 WLR 1231
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1161:oil spill
1153:explosion
994:Sea Quest
988:Sangachal
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1053:BP Top 8
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882:BP Pulse
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176:Keywords
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229:Facts
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