[11]
For the proposer of this law, in his desire that those of
the merchants who were guilty of wrongdoing should not go unpunished, and that
those who were innocent should not be annoyed, absolutely forbade a person of
this sort to make denunciations unless he were confident that he could prove in
your court that the things charged in his denunciation had actually taken place;
but that if any one of those who bring baseless charges should transgress this
law, he should be liable to criminal information and arrest.However, read them the law itself; for it will explain
the matter more clearly than I can do.“
Law
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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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