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I showed how many things ought to be
done before a demand was made that the goods of a relation should be taken possession
of; especially when he had at Rome his house,
his wife, his children, and an agent who was equally an intimate friend of both. I
proved that when he said the recognizances were forfeited, there were actually no
recognizances at all; that on the day on which he says he gave him the promise, he was
not even at Rome. I promised that I would make
that plain by witnesses, who both must know the truth, and who had no reason for
speaking falsely. I proved also that it was not possible that the goods should have been
taken possession of according to the edict; because he was neither said to have kept out
of the way for the purpose of fraud, nor to have left the country in banishment.
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