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For if Leocrates had himself adopted a son during his
lifetime, even though the action was contrary to law, we should have made no
protest; but since he had no son born to him, nor had adopted one during his
lifetime, and as the law gives inheritances to the nearest of kin, how can it be
other than right that we should not be robbed of this inheritance, to which we
have a double title?
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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