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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
word_n	action_n	bring_v	plaintiff_n	2,718	5	10.1141	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89344	The lawes of Virginia now in force collected out of the assembly records and digested into one volume : revised and confirmed by the Grand Assembly held at James-City by prorogation the 23d of March 1661 in the 13th year of the reign of our soveraign lord King Charles the II.; Laws, etc.	Virginia.; Moryson, Francis.; Randolph, Henry.; Virginia. General Assembly.	1662 (1662)	Wing M2849; ESTC R7787	65,296	97

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