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This common law defense 'derives from the Latin in pari delicto potior est conditio defendentis: "In a case of equal or mutual fault .
In this decision, I am following the time-honored editorial practice lectio difficilior potior.
Courts dusted off an old Roman legal principle--Qui prior est tempore potior est jure--and redefined "first" into second.
 
 
 
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