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In the Voconian law, there is no “has made or
shall have made.” Nor in any law is time past ever implicated in blame,
except in cases which are of their own nature wicked and nefarious, so that, even if
there were no law, they would be strenuously to be avoided. And in these cases we
see that many things are established by law in such a way that things done
previously cannot be called in question—the Cornelian law the law about
testaments, the law about money, and many others, in which no new law is established
in the nation, but it is established that what has always been an evil action shall
be liable to public prosecution up to a certain time.
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