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Bibliographic information
| Title | Practical Jurisprudence: A Comment on Austin |
| Author | Edwin Charles Clark |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1883 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 15, 2006 |
| Length | 403 pages |
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