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What they are doing is indeed an unheard-of thing. They
offer to pay us the principal of our loan, thus implying that the ship has
reached port safe, but they claim the right to rob us of our interest on the
ground that she has been wrecked. The agreement, however, does not say one thing
about the interest and another about the principal of the loan, but our rights
are the same for both and our means of recovery the same.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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