Indeed, after all their efforts to fix these things by positive and inflexible maxims, the best Roman lawyers, in their best ages, were obliged to confess that every case of evidence rather formed its own rule than that any rule could be adapted to every case.
Burke reflects on the challenges Roman lawyers faced in establishing universal rules for evidence.
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