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The same thing occurs when there is a question
about some one thing which is claimed by a number
[p. 459]
of persons, who may all of them rely on the same
kind of plea (for instance, on the right of the next of
kin), or may put in different claims, one urging that
the property was left him by will, another that he is
next of kin. Now whenever a different defence has
to be made against different claimants, there must be
different bases, as for example the well-known controversial theme:
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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