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If,
on the other hand, the point of law is disputed, either
one party or both in turn will argue the point. Take
the following case as an example. “A father shall
be empowered to arrest his son, and a patron to
arrest his freedman. Freedmen shall be transferred
to their patron's heir. A certain man appointed the
son of a freedman as his heir. The son of the freedman and the freedman himself both claim the right
to arrest the other.” Here the father claims his right
over the son, while the son, in virtue of his new position
as patron, denies that his father possessed the rights
of a father, because he was in the power of his patron.
[p. 149]
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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