[8]
But just as, although there be several questions,
each with its special basis, the basis of the case is but
one, namely that to which all else is referred, even so
the real point for the decision of the judge is, strictly
speaking, that on which judgment is given.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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