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In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.
samuel r. delany— The Einstein Intersection, Section 2 (1967)
No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.
william blackstone— Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume IV, p. 108. (Ed. 1880).
Each stage in life is an edition that supersedes the previous one and will also be superseded until the definitive edition: the one that the editor gives to the worms.
Cada estação da vida é uma edição, que corrige a anterior, e que será corrigida também, até a edição definitiva, que o editor da de graça aos vermes.
— Memorias Póstumas de Bras Cubas (1881), chapter 27 (translated as Epitaph of a Small Winner, 1952).
Necessity creates the law, it supersedes rules; and whatever is reasonable and just in such cases is likewise legal.
stowell, william scott, 1st baron— The Gratitude (1801), 3 Rob. Adm. Rep. 240. Note that "The Gratitude" is the name of a legal case in admiralty, such cases being styled by the name of the vessel at issue.
