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But the question of competence as regards persons, times, legal actions and
the rest originates in some pre-existent cause:
the question turns therefore not on competence
itself, but on the cause with which the point of
competence originates. “You ought to demand the
return of a deposit not before the praetor but before
the consuls, as the sum is too large to come under
the praetor's jurisdiction.” The question then arises
whether the sum is too large, and the dispute is one
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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