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Quantity also, as I have already stated,1 falls as a
rule, though not always, under the head of quality,
whether it is concerned with measure or number.
Measure, however, sometimes consists in the valuation
of a deed with a view to determining the amount
of guilt or the amount of benefit involved, while, on
the other hand, it sometimes turns on a point of
law, when the dispute is under what law a man
is to be punished or rewarded.
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Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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