Reports of Cases Decided at Nisi Prius and at the Crown Side on Circuit: With Select Decisions at Chambers, Volume 1Stevens & Norton, Sweet and Maxwell, 1860 |
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| Title | Reports of Cases Decided at Nisi Prius and at the Crown Side on Circuit: With Select Decisions at Chambers, Volume 1 Nominate reports Reports of Cases Decided at Nisi Prius and at the Crown Side on Circuit: With Select Decisions at Chambers, William Francis Finlason Volume 1 of Reports of Cases Decided at Nisi Prius and at the Crown Side on Circuit; with Select Decisions at Chambers: By T. Campbell Foster, and W. F. Finlason, William Francis Finlason |
| Authors | Thomas Campbell Foster, William Francis Finlason |
| Publisher | Stevens & Norton, Sweet and Maxwell, 1860 |
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