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Others again make eight by the addition
of competence to the above-mentioned seven. Some
on the other hand have introduced a fresh method
of division, reserving the name of bases for the
rational, and giving the name of questions to the legal,
as I mentioned above,1 since in the former the
problem is concerned with facts, in the latter with
the letter of the law. Some on the contrary reverse
this nomenclature calling the legal questions bases
and the rational grounds questions.
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Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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