Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	call_v	great_a	1,387	5	2.5032	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85670	Bouleutērion, or A practical demonstration of county judicatures. Wherein is amply explained the judiciall and ministeriall authority of sheriffs. Together with the original, jurisdiction, and method of keeping all countrey courts. / By Will: Greenwood, philomath.	Greenwood, Will. William.	1659 (1659)	Wing G1870; Thomason E1789_1; ESTC R209680	323,562	484

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seneschalliae_fw-la se_fw-la cognoscat_fw-la &_o jura_fw-la domini_fw-la svi_fw-la in_o omnibus_fw-la teneri_fw-la affectet_fw-la etc._n etc._n cujus_fw-la officium_fw-la est_fw-la curias_fw-la tenere_fw-la maneriorum_fw-la &_o de_fw-la substractationibus_fw-la consuetudinum_fw-la servitiorum_fw-la reddituum_fw-la sectarum_fw-la ad_fw-la curiam_fw-la mercata_fw-la molendina_fw-la domini_fw-la &_o advisus_fw-la franciplegiorum_a aliarumque_fw-la libertatum_fw-la domino_fw-la pertinentium_fw-la inquirat_fw-la etc._n etc._n by_o which_o description_n it_o be_v observe_v that_o he_o ought_v to_o have_v a_o double_a qualification_n viz._n 1._o in_o moralibus_fw-la 2._o in_o judicialibus_fw-la 1._o in_o moralibus_fw-la he_o must_v be_v qualify_v with_o these_o property_n viz._n circumspection_n fidelity_n providence_n discretion_n etc._n etc._n which_o may_v be_v reduce_v to_o two_o general_a head_n to_o wit_n verity_n and_o industry_n 2._o in_o judicialibus_fw-la and_o therein_o

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