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The Path of the Law

No doubt simple and extreme cases can be put of imaginable laws which the statute-making power would not dare to enact, even in the ab- ... arisen in the courts on the very question whether a given statutory liability is a penalty or a tax. On the answer to this question depends the decision whether conduct is legally wrong or right, and also ...

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