Charles Sumner: “No subtlety of technicality, no ingenuity of citation, no skill in…”

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No subtlety of technicality, no ingenuity of citation, no skill in arranging texts of statutes, can make it anything else.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner asserts that no legal technicality can justify the act of breaking a financial agreement.

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Charles Sumner: “No subtlety of technicality, no ingenuity of citation, no skill in arranging texts of statutes, can make it anything…”