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Moreover every law either gives or takes away
punishes or commands, forbids or permits, and
involves a dispute either on its own account or on
account of another law, while the question which it
involves will turn either on the letter or the intention.
The letter is either clear or obscure or ambiguous.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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