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where we ourselves
imagine our opponent's reply, we have to introduce
two definitions, which should suit the respective
sides of the case as well as it is in our power to
make them. But in the courts we must give careful
consideration to the question whether our definition
may not be superfluous and irrelevant or ambiguous
or inconsistent or even of no less service to our
opponents than to ourselves, since it will be the
fault of the pleader if any of these errors occur. On
the other hand, we shall ensure the right definition,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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