[44]
For questions of law
turn on time, while it also determines the quality of
actions and is of great importance in questions of
fact; for instance, occasionally it provides irrefragable
[p. 225]
proofs, which may be illustrated by a case which I
have already cited,1 when one of the signatories to a
document has died before the day on which it was
signed, or when a person is accused of the commission of some crime, although he was only an infant
at the time or not yet born.
1 v. v. 2.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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