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Another question which is not infrequently raised is
as to the interpretation of the law forbidding an action
to be brought twice on the same dispute, the problem
being whether the word twice refers to the prosecutor
or the prosecution. Such are the points arising out
of the obscurity of the law.
A second form of question turns on some passage
where the meaning is clear. Those who have given
exclusive attention to this class of question call it
the basis concerned with the obvious expression of the
law and its intention. In such circumstances one
party will rest their case on the letter, the other
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on the intention of the law.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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