 No doubt, legal decisionmakers sometimes depart from what the legislature provided in a valid enactment (or a testator provided in a valid will...). They may do so corruptly, or in the exercise of an equitable jurisdiction to depart from the law, or because they consider that justice demands it even if the law accords them no power to depart from the enactment or the will. But in Garner v Burr, the magistrates and the appeal judges evidently saw themselves as giving effect to the Road Traffic Act. And the sort of disagreement that arose in that case (disagreement over the legal effect of the use of a word) is so common that we seem to find a paradox: