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And, if
any one of us, being defendant in a suit brought by him, had dared to enter a
special plea declaring that the action was not one that could be brought into
court, I know well that he would have waxed indignant, and would have protested
to you, declaring that he was suffering treatment that was outrageous and
contrary to law, if anyone voted that his action, being a mercantile one, was
not one that could be brought. Then, Lacritus, if you consider this just for
yourself, why should it not be just for me? Do not the same laws stand written
for us all? And have we not all the same rights in regard to mercantile suits?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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