Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	child_n	father_n	son_n	7,317	5	5.5737	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08257	The foot-post of Douer With his packet stuft full of strange and merry petitions.; Straunge foot-post	Nixon, Anthony.	1616 (1616)	STC 18591A; ESTC S110176	34,262	52

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