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Charles Sumner: “Here was a declaration constituting part of the res gestæ, and in itself an act.”

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Here was a declaration constituting part of the res gestæ, and in itself an act.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Here, Sumner identifies a declaration as a significant part of the legal transaction known as res gestæ.

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