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But questions of relation, as I have already
pointed out, enter also into translative questions, that
is, questions of competence, since in cases such as
“Has this man a right to bring an action?” or “Is
it fitting that he should do such and such a thing,
or against this man, or at this time, or in this
manner?” For all these questions must be referred
to a certain standard.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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