One Hundred Years of Solitude

did not deny it. He based his
right on the fact that the
usurped lands had been
distributed by José Arcadio
Buendía at the time of the
founding, and he thought it
possible to prove that his
father had been crazy ever
since that time, for he had
disposed of a patrimony that
really belonged to the family.
It was an unnecessary
allegation, because Arcadio
had not come to do justice.