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| Title | A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown; Or, A System of the Principal Matters Relating to that Subject, Digested Under Proper Heads ... Book 1 of A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown; Or, A System of the Principal Matters Relating to that Subject, Digested Under Proper Heads, William Hawkins George Wythe collection HeinOnline: Selden Society publications & English legal history Legal classics library |
| Author | William Hawkins |
| Edition | 6 |
| Publisher | His Majesty's law-printers; published for the editor, 1777 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 25 Sep 2006 |
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