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Lawyers frequently raise the question of the
letter and the intention of the law, in fact a large
proportion of legal disputes turn on these points.
We need not therefore be surprised that such
questions occur in the schools as well, where they
are often invented with this special purpose. One
form of this kind of question is found in cases where
tile enquiry turns both on the letter and the spirit
[p. 137]
of a law.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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