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.

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.

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