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The whole argument of the commissioner, that this act of his is not final, is founded on a quibble,--on the use of the legal word “final,” as though it were synonymous with the popular word eternal or perpetual.
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Mann critiques the legal reasoning behind the commissioner's argument regarding the finality of his decision.
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