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Page 537 - Judgment according as the very Right of the Cause and Matter in Law shall appear unto them...
Page 651 - ... felony without benefit of clergy, and the offenders therein shall be adjudged felons, and shall suffer death as in case of felony without benefit of clergy.
Page 627 - ... sale or disposal of any goods or chattels thereupon ; it shall and may be lawful to and for the defendant or defendants in such actions to plead the general issue, and give the special matter in evidence...
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Page 618 - That if after the death of a father any of his children shall die intestate without wife or children in the life time of the mother every brother and sister and the representatives of them shall have an equal share with her, any thing in this act or any law usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
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| Title | 1769-1775 Volume 5 of The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution: Including the Charters to the Duke of York, the Commissions and Instructions to Colonial Governors, the Duke's Laws, the Laws of the Dongan and Leisler Assemblies, the Charters of Albany and New York and the Acts of the Colonial Legislatures from 1691 to 1775 Inclusive, New York (State). Commissioners of Statutory Revision |
| Author | New York (State) |
| Contributor | New York (State). Commissioners of Statutory Revision |
| Publisher | J.B. Lyon, state printer, 1894 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2007 |
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