Kitap 5
10.43
Certain Latin writers have thought it a sufficient distinction to call the general sense time, and the special times. In both senses time is of importance in advisory speeches and demonstrative oratory, but not so frequently as in forensic.
10.44
For questions of law turn on time, while it also determines the quality of actions and is of great importance in questions of fact; for instance, occasionally it provides irrefragable proofs, which may be illustrated by a case which I have already cited, v. v. 2. when one of the signatories to a document has died before the day on which it was signed, or when a person is accused of the commission of some crime, although he was only an infant at the time or not yet born.
10.45
Further, all kinds of arguments may easily be drawn either from facts previous to a certain act, or contemporary or subsequent. As regards antecedent facts the following example will illustrate my meaning; You threatened to kill him, you went out by night, you started before him. Motives of actions may also belong to past time.
