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But so far are they from making
payment according to their guarantee, that they even lay claim to what is yours.
And yet the laws enact that any man's estate shall be confiscated who, after
guaranteeing any sum due to the state, does not make good his guarantee; so
that, even if the slaves belonged to them, they ought to be state-property, if
the laws are of any use.
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