Clever means of avoiding legal punishment – miscellaneous

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Clever means of avoiding legal punishment – miscellaneous.

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 J1189

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Youth will answer question only when king places him on throne: then youth calls executioners to punish cruel king Execution escaped by threatening with malediction King substitutes for condemned man when he is told that whoever is executed that day is destined to become king in his next birth

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Execution escaped by use of special permissions granted the condemned Punishment escaped by discomfiting condemner Execution escaped by invoking laws of hospitality No second punishment for same offense Execution escaped by story-telling. Cf. Browning's "Balaustion's Adventure."

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