Which response best addresses “Is it the judge’s or his secretary’s?” when proof is absent?
Supplementary Practice 13: Attribution, Quotation and Evidential Restraint in Rhetorical Analysis
- Laʿallahā li-l-qāḍī — it may belong to the judge
- Innamā hiya li-l-qāḍī — it belongs only to the judge
- Hiya li-l-kātib — it is the secretary’s
- Lam tathbut nisbatuhā baʿdu — attribution remains unproved