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Further, that one cannot alter justice
either by fraud or compulsion, for it is based upon nature, whereas contracts
may be entered into under both conditions. In addition to this, we must examine
whether the contract is contrary to any written law of our own or foreign
countries, or to any general law, or to other previous or subsequent contracts.
For either the latter are valid and the former not, or the former are right and
the latter fraudulent; we may put it in whichever way it seems fit. We must also
consider the question of expediency—whether the contract is in any way
opposed to the interest of the judges. There are a number of other arguments of
the same kind, which are equally easy to discern.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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