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but
this cannot be said, “Decide that if a man has a posthumous son born to him, his
will is not thereby invalidated; decide that a thing is due which a woman had promised without
the sanction of her trustee.” There is no opening for transactions of this sort, nor
for any one's power or influence; in fact,—and this gives questions of law a more
important and a more holy character,—a judge cannot be corrupted even by a bribe in
cases of this sort.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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