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But that
you may be fully convinced of this, please read the law itself.“LawThe two parties to a
suit shall be compelled to answer one another's questions, but they may not
testify.”Now consider this law also
which ordains that action for false testimony may also be brought on this very
ground, namely, that one testifies contrary to law.“LawThe witness shall also
be liable to action for giving false testimony on the mere ground that he
gives evidence contrary to law, and the one producing him shall also be
liable in the selfsame manner.”
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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