It appears that in that Court, the defence stressed by appellant's counsel was the exceptio quod metus causa and it was to that defence that the learned Judge-President mainly directed himself.

Path dependencies occur when the response to a turning point event or treatment is contingent upon the individual's developmental history.

From this time, however, you may easily, my dear Friends, believe, a similar plebeianism cannot disgrace me.

I shoved the door closed and took off running for the steps. The clogs were too big and not the best shoes for sprinting. My feet clomped along the broken sidewalk.