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Sometimes we may pass from quality to
definition, as in actions concerned with lunacy, cruelty
and offences against the State. In such cases if it
is impossible to assert that the acts alleged were
right, we are left with such pleas as, “To use bad
language to one's wife does not amount to cruelty.”
Definition is the statement of the fact called in
question in appropriate, clear and concise language.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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