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Precisely similar methods are
also employed in questions that occur in real life.
For the scholastic themes concerned with the disowning of children are on exactly the same footing
as the cases of sons disinherited by their parents
which are tried in the public courts, or of those
claims for the recovery of property which are tried
in the centum viral court: themes dealing with cruelty
find an actual parallel in those cases in which the
wife claims the restoration of her dowry, and the
question is whose fault it was that led to the divorce:
and again the theme where the son accuses his father
of madness has its analogy in cases where a suit is
brought for the appointment of a guardian.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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