Charles Sumner: “How often are we told by the lawyers, in a saying handed down from…”

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How often are we told by the lawyers, in a saying handed down from antiquity, that “a wretched servitude exists where the law is uncertain”!

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Sumner cites a legal principle about the consequences of uncertain laws, emphasizing its historical significance.

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