The written agreement
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Against Dionysodorus
The physical written contract recording the loan's terms -- voyage from Athens to Egypt and back, interest, and a double-damages penalty clause -- repeatedly produced, read aloud by the clerk, and argued over in court.
And if they shall not produce the security, plain to see and unimpaired, or if in any respect they shall violate the agreement, they shall pay double the amount.
But when the fellow saw that we were on the point of accepting his offer, he said, Well, then, cancel the agreement.
However, as far as concerns any money you may pay we will in the presence of the banker agree to annul the agreement;
Against Zenothemis
A written security agreement that Zenothemis and Hegestratus deposited with a crew member before the attempted sabotage, used as evidence of their collusion.
For before the attempt was made to cut through the ship’s bottom, this man and Hegestratus deposited with one of the ship’s company a written agreement.
To prove that I am telling the truth in this—that the plaintiff refused to be put out of possession except by me, that he refused the challenge to sail back to Sicily, and that he deposited the agreement in the course of the voyage—read the depositions.
Against Athenogenes
The sealed written contract of sale between the speaker and Athenogenes, drafted to obscure Midas's true debts within a footnoted clause.
But Athenogenes will presently tell you that in law whatever agreements one man makes with another are binding.
When I realized what a plight I was in, at long last I called together my friends and relatives and we read the copy of the agreement in which the names of Pancalus and Polycles were expressly written with the statement that certain sums were owing to them for sweet oil.
We went to the perfumery and deposited the document with Lysicles of Leuconoe, and I put down the forty minas and so made the purchase.