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It is in my
opinion, men of the jury, an admirable provision of the laws that they allow
another chance after a trial by means of proceedings for false testimony, in
order that, if anyone by bringing forward witnesses testifying to what is false
or by citing challenges which were never tendered or depositions made contrary
to law, has deceived the jury, he may gain nothing by it, but the one who has
been wronged may impeach the testimony, and come into your court and show that
the witnesses have given false testimony regarding the matter at issue, and thus
exact the penalty from them and hold the one who brought them forward liable to
an action for subornation of perjury.
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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