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“It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is est…” — William Godwin
It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to him shall result, of any evasion or escape that the law shall afford him.
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