According to your reasoning, two wrongs would make a right and two thieves one honest man.

Would you let McDuff go unpunished simply because he was clever enough to induce Jones to try to break the law as well as himself?
Why, any judge would laugh you out of court on such a proposition." "But," I retorted, "surely, if I gave you a hundred dollars for the purpose of bribing a judge and you failed to accomplish your purpose, no court would assist me to recover the money.

'Twould be against public policy and _contra bonos mores_." "Even so," answered my partner, "would it not be more _contra bonos mores_ to let a thief go unpunished, once he had been arrested?
Take my word, Quib, there's nothing in it," insisted Gottlieb warmly.

"For instance, there is the crime against usury--a very foolish law to be sure, but there it is.

No one can commit usury unless some one else participates in the offense by paying the unlawful interest; but the usurer does not escape on that account.
Why, then, should the false pretender in our case ?" "I admit the force of your analogy," said I, "and I could easily suggest others myself.