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It was incumbent upon us—since the law grants the right of
succession to those nearest of kin, and we are relatives of Archiades, who
originally left the estate—not to suffer his house to become extinct,
and others, who had no right whatever to it, to inherit his property; while the
defendant, who was neither a son by blood of the deceased nor a son adopted
according to your laws, as I shall show, has thus recklessly made a false
affidavit, and is seeking to rob me of the inheritance.
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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