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“If anyone had driven me from my house
by armed violence, I should have ground for action
against him. Have I then no ground, if he has
prevented me from entering my house?” Dissimilar points may be illustrated by the following
example1: “Because a man has bequeathed all his
silver to a given person and this bequest is regarded
as including silver coin as well as plate, it does not
follow that he intended all outstanding debts to be
paid to the legatee.”
1 cp. Cic. Top. iii. 13 and 16.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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