Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	act_n	law_n	parliament_n	2,185	5	6.6353	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35648	The case of Sir Robert Atkyns, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath, upon his appeal against a decree obtain'd by Mrs. Elizabeth Took, (the now wife of Thomas Took, Esq.) and others, plaintiffs in Chancery, about a separate maintenance of 200 l per ann. clear above all charges settled on Mrs. Took, beside a large jointure	Atkyns, Robert, Sir, 1621-1709, defendant.; Took, Elizabeth.	1695 (1695)	Wing C999; ESTC R170983	10,525	13

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