Rhetorica Ad Herennium Book 2 (In Contemporary American English)

Book 2 deals with the Conjectural issue (probability, comparison, signs, presumptive proof, subsequent behavior, and confirmatory proof). Under the rubric Judicial issue the Absolute Juridical suit is examined along with the sources of the law (law of nature, statutory, common law, previous judgments, equity, and agreement). Next the Assumptive juridical cause is discussed (comparison, shifting the question of guilt, acknowledgement of the charge, and rejection). At the end the artistic dev...