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For whereas all clauses in
contracts which are open to dispute require a judicial decision, men of the
jury, those on the contrary which are admitted by both the contracting parties,
and concerning which there exist maritime agreements, are held by all men to be
final; and the parties are bound to abide by what is written. That these men,
however, have fulfilled not a single one of the provisions of the agreement, but
that from the very first they meditated fraud and purposed dishonest action has
been thus clearly proven against them by the depositions of witnesses and by
themselves.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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