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Punishment escaped by discomfiting condemner.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Clever means of avoiding legal punishment. · view the constellation · filed as J1182

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Filed under Clever means of avoiding legal punishment.

1 finer motif beneath it
To be beaten by deceiver of husband. Lady has her women ready to give a trickster a beating. He is allowed to make one request. The one who has most often deceived her husband shall strike first
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Execution escaped by use of special permissions granted the condemned Execution escaped by invoking laws of hospitality No second punishment for same offense Execution escaped by story-telling. Cf. Browning's "Balaustion's Adventure." Clever means of avoiding legal punishment – miscellaneous

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