The Law Magazine: Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Volume 12Saunders and Benning, 1834 |
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... obtain a certificate of the burial ; I found it had been erroneously entered in the book , and the clergyman refused to alter it from my own information as chief mourner . " From your inquiries , are you persuaded that the greatest ...
... obtain a certificate of the burial ; I found it had been erroneously entered in the book , and the clergyman refused to alter it from my own information as chief mourner . " From your inquiries , are you persuaded that the greatest ...
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... obtained administration and absolutely got about £ 18,000 , 3 per cents . out of court on the day that I discovered the falsehood of the claim , and I was barely in time by ardent exertion to stay a further sum of £ 6000 . " Of his ...
... obtained administration and absolutely got about £ 18,000 , 3 per cents . out of court on the day that I discovered the falsehood of the claim , and I was barely in time by ardent exertion to stay a further sum of £ 6000 . " Of his ...
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... obtaining a verdict in the county town of Warwick , and were within a week of getting a chancery order for a considerable sum of money , when the solicitor who opposed the claim had reason to believe that he could discover a better and ...
... obtaining a verdict in the county town of Warwick , and were within a week of getting a chancery order for a considerable sum of money , when the solicitor who opposed the claim had reason to believe that he could discover a better and ...
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... obtain acts of parliament , for the establishment , in the first instance , of a diocesan , and in the second , of a general register office ; but though the latter measure was recommended to the queen and pro- pounded to the clergy by ...
... obtain acts of parliament , for the establishment , in the first instance , of a diocesan , and in the second , of a general register office ; but though the latter measure was recommended to the queen and pro- pounded to the clergy by ...
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... obtained which is to set that machinery in motion . A metropolitan office is to be provided , and the care and management of the register and the controul and superin- tendence of the officers employed about it are confided to 22 ...
... obtained which is to set that machinery in motion . A metropolitan office is to be provided , and the care and management of the register and the controul and superin- tendence of the officers employed about it are confided to 22 ...
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Page 144 - State or neighborhood; when I refuse, for any such cause, or for any cause, the homage due to American talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion to liberty and the country; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue, in any son of the South; and if, moved by local...