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	king_n	statute_n	6,916	5	8.1269	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85192	The privileges of the University of Oxford, in point of visitation: cleerly evidenced by letter to an honourable personage. Together with the Universities answer to the summons of the visitors.	Fell, John, 1625-1686.; University of Oxford.	1647 (1647)	Wing F619; Thomason E411_1; ESTC R4583	5,543	12

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