[217]
There are certain
injuries for which the statute permits life to be taken. Aristocrates, even
though the life be taken in such circumstances, makes no reservation, but
permits a man whom the laws release without penalty to be handed over for
punishment. When a man has suffered this misfortune, the law enjoins that
satisfaction be first claimed. In defiance of this law he proposes no trial,
demands no redress from the persons on whom he has such claim, but declares
incontinently that the man is liable to seizure, and puts under an immediate ban
anyone who tries to rescue him.
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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