A like temptation might, perhaps, occasion a like corruption in the form of law proceedings.

类似的诱惑也许会以法律诉讼的形式引起类似的腐败。

Though their purposes were benevolent, their transactions had to be under the forms of law and according to the rules of business.

尽管他们的目的是仁慈的，但他们的交易必须遵循法律形式和商业规则。

Stamp duties, it is evident, might be levied without any variation, in all countries where the forms of law process, and the deeds by which property, both real and personal, is transferred, are the same, or nearly the same.

很明显，在法律程序的形式以及不动产和动产转让契约相同或几乎相同的所有国家，印花税的征收可能没有任何变化。