Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	king_n	lord_n	year_n	6,667	5	4.9758	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59656	Certaine proposals for regulating the law to make the same more plaine and easie to bee understood, and lesse chargeable and expensive then heretofore.	Shepheard, John.	1652 (1652)	Wing S3102A; ESTC R221120	4,336	11

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