Chapter 140 Chapter Forty-Four

How Grandigure relates the curious course of a difficult case Paiguguay said: "This is very similar to the mysterious case of Dolabella, who was the governor of Asia, and the story is as follows: "In Smyrna there was a woman whose first husband left her a son named Abesai. After her husband died, after a certain period of time, she remarried to a second husband, and she bore a son named Avraer. So it happened (you also know that stepfathers and stepmothers seldom love the children in the front room) the case that the second husband and the second son conspired to murder Abesay.

"When the mother knew what the father and son had done, she thought that they could not be let go in this way, so she avenged the first son and killed both father and son. She was arrested and brought to Dolabella. In front of the Governor, she made no secrets and admitted the whole story of the murder. However, she believed that she had the right and reason to kill their father and son. That's the case. "The governor felt that this matter was difficult to handle, and he didn't know which side should be judged. The woman's crime was serious, because she killed her second husband and child. However, this murder, he thought, was also natural. It is in line with human nature, because it was their father and son who joined forces, set up a trap, and killed the first son first, and this son did not offend them or offend them. They killed because they were stingy and wanted to monopolize the property. Finally , How to judge? He sent the case to the Supreme Court of Athens, waiting for them to decide.

"The Supreme Court ordered that after another hundred years, all people should be sent to Athens to deal with it on the spot, because there are still some materials missing in the case file. This shows that they also think this case is difficult to handle, the circumstances are difficult to distinguish, and they don't know how to judge it. it is good. "At this time, if you use the dice to decide, you can't make a mistake, because the result is nothing more than: the woman loses, then she should be punished, because her hatred should be handled by the judiciary, and she should not kill herself; If a woman wins, it is because she has suffered so much that she intends to kill.

"The Bridvar case strikes me as odd that he went on all these years without error." Abby Simon said: "I admit, it's really hard for me to explain your question clearly. I guess it's just an occasional coincidence of providence and wisdom.These two things (because of Breedvar's simplicity and sincerity, he did not quite trust his own learning and talents, and at the same time he was well aware of the contradictions of laws, edicts, regulations, and codes) saw the deceitfulness of the "detractor" ①— Often pretending to be an angel of light②—through its messengers, those lawyers, judges, judges, etc., confounding black and white, confusing right and wrong (you know, no matter how unreasonable, there will be lawyers to defend you, Otherwise, there would be no lawsuits in the world), so he humbly entrusted himself in the hands of God, the just judge, and asked for His grace to help, and let God's holy will and chance make the final judgment.Use this fortune-telling method to find out the will and wishes of heaven, and we call it the court's verdict.The coincidence of God's will and wisdom rolled the dice in this way, so that the reasonable man won, just as the fortune-teller said, they asked the heavenly law to protect his rights and interests, without any malice, so that human beings would have no doubts and fears, and God's intentions would be carried forward .

① According to Dussard's textual research, the 1547 and 1553 editions did not contain "Pangigrue's statement", so here should be what Abes Demond continued to say in the previous chapter, not what Paguguet said. ② For the story, see Aulus Galias: Chapter Seven of Volume XII of "Attica Night". ① Refers to the devil Satan. ② See "New Testament? 2 Corinthians" Chapter 11, Section 14. "I don't want to think or say about the obvious injustice and corruption of the Supreme Court of Millange, and I certainly don't believe that the case tried by the method of rolling the dice is better than their bloody hands and evil intentions. More unjust are the cases judged by their judgments. Not to mention that their judgments were made up by a Tribonian, a bad man, dishonest, brutal, sinister, treacherous, miserly, unjust, Sell ​​laws, edicts, ordinances, regulations, and circulars for money, and sell them to whoever offers the highest price. The laws they use are all abridged fragments, and complete laws have been cancelled. They are afraid of complete laws, afraid of The works of ancient jurists, such as the Twelve Tables ② and the Judgment Code, feared that their scandals would be exposed by the world.

"It would be better (or at least not worse) for the litigants to let these people walk on the caltrops, which Caddo hoped and proposed to lay on the grounds of the courts at that time, than to subject them to the judgment of the law." ① Tribunian: The jurist who compiled the Roman Law. ② Twelve Tables: The earliest written law in Rome in the fifth century BC.It got its name because it was engraved on twelve bronze medals.It strictly maintained the rule of the slave masters over the slaves. ③ To evade the litigants, see Chapter 1 of Volume XIX of Plinius' "Compendium of Natural History".