Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	act_n	common_a	parliament_n	6,971	5	6.4802	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81338	A declaration by Sir Edward Dering Knight and Baronet. With his petition to the honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament.	Dering, Edward, Sir, 1598-1644.	1644 (1644)	Wing D1108; Thomason E40_5; ESTC R22648	3,884	15

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