Inasmuch as the
laws, men of the jury, have granted that a special plea be entered in cases
where a man, after having given a release and discharge, nevertheless brings
suit, and as both of these have been given me by Pantaenetus here, I have
pleaded, as you have just now heard, that his suit is not admissible. I did not
think that I should forgo this right, or that, after I had proved among other
things that the plaintiff had released me, and that I had got rid of him, it
should be open to him to declare that I was uttering a falsehood and to try to
employ the argument that, if any such release had been granted me, I should have
put in a special plea to bar his suit. No, I determined to come before you
relying on this plea and to prove both points—that I have never done
the plaintiff any wrong, and that he is suing me contrary to law.
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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