• The Board took them to law and won the first round in the English courts, but the owner challenged that finding in the European Court of Justice.
• In 1796 Thackeray, together with several other patent ‘pirates'’ were taken to law by Boulton and Watt and, for a while, this engine was stopped.
• We'd be thrown out of any court in the land if we took them to law.

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