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Execution escaped by invoking laws of hospitality.

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 J1183

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Filed under Clever means of avoiding legal punishment.

1 finer motif beneath it
Prisoner has drunk water furnished by the king and thus becomes king's guest. Spared
Filed beside it
Execution escaped by use of special permissions granted the condemned Punishment escaped by discomfiting condemner 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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