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judgement_n error_n reverse_v verdict_n 1,761 5 11.8650 5 false
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A49855 The down-fall of the vnjust lawyers, with the monopolizing officers, who have devoured much of the wealth of this nation, and the rising of the just written and proposed in order to the abolishing the chargeablenesse of proceedings in law-suits / by Edmund Leach of London, merchant. Leach, Edmund, of London. 1652 (1652) Wing L768; ESTC R10031 13,034 16

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