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The same prohibitory law about violence existed in the time of our ancestors which exists
now. “From which you, or your household, or your agent have this year driven him, or
his household, or his agent, by violence.” Then there is added, with reference to
the man who is being proceeded against, “When he was the owner;” and this
further addition also, “Of what he possessed, having acquired it neither by
violence, nor secretly, nor as a present.”
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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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