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Youth in court for kissing prince's daughter pleads his love for her. Prince allows plea: "If we kill those who love us, what shall we do to those who hate us?"

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Clever judicial decisions. · view the constellation · filed as J1174.1

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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  • Spanish ExemplaKeller.
  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 120, 733
  • general Alphabet No. 60
  • general Mensa Philosophica No. 16
  • general *Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 20
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Filed under Clever decisions concerning kissing and rape.

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Complaint about the stolen kiss. Woman is allowed to take one in returnThe girl screams when she is robbed. Accuses young man of raping her. When he tries to rob her of money she summons help. Decision: if she had shouted as loud before, the man could not have raped her. Youth acquittedGirls must pay for young man's virginity. Girls repulsed by man climb in his window at night. Become pregnant and demand marriage. Branded as prostitutes and must pay the manMan's torn garment as proof of his innocence of rape. If he were the assaulter, the torn garment would be woman's

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