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If a thing is legal before a certain
occurrence, is it legal after it? Example: “The
ravisher took refuge in flight. His victim married.
The ravisher returned and the woman demands to
be allowed her choice.”1 Is that which is lawful
with regard to the whole, lawful with regard to a
part? Example: “It is forbidden to accept a plough
as security. He accepted a ploughshare.” Is that
which is lawful with regard to a part, lawful with
regard to the whole? Example: “It is forbidden
to export wool from Tarentum: he exported sheep.”
1 i. e. the death of the ravisher, see n. on VII. vii. 3.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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