Observations on the Principles and Tendency of the County Courts Act |
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Page 22 - And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped...
Page 20 - quoth the lawyer, ' not to flatter ye, You have as good and fair a battery As heart can wish, and need not shame The proudest man alive to claim...
Page 22 - the fountaine of all the fundamental lawes of the realme " and for " the most part declaratory of the principal! grounds of the fundamentall Laws of England, and for the residue it is additionall to supply some defects of the Common Law.
Page 21 - ... should not be one thing in one county, another thing in another...