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First, men of the jury, to prove that our pedigree is as I have stated, the
clerk shall read you the depositions, and thereafter the law itself which awards
inheritances to the families and to those nearest of kin in the male line. For,
I take it, these are the essential points in the case and the matters upon which
you cast your vote under oath.Call the witnesses
up here, please, and read the law.“
Witnesses
”“
Law
”
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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