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The next subject which comes up for discussion is that of contrary laws.1 For all writers
of text-books are agreed that in such cases there
are two bases involving the letter and the intention
of the law respectively. This view is justified by
the fact that, when one law contradicts another, both
parties attack the letter and raise the question of
intention, while the point in dispute, as regards each
law, is whether we should be guided by it at all.
1 See III. vi. 46.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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