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... court are two finely cut crosses ; one called St. Martin's is formed of a single piece of red granite , 14 feet in length . The cathedral itself is dedicated to St. Mary , and , according to Boethius , was built by Malduinus in the ...
... court are two finely cut crosses ; one called St. Martin's is formed of a single piece of red granite , 14 feet in length . The cathedral itself is dedicated to St. Mary , and , according to Boethius , was built by Malduinus in the ...
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... courts of Ireland are the Queen's Bench , Common Pleas , Exchequer , and Chancery . There is also , as in England , a bankrupt court , a court for the relief of insolvent debtors , a court of admiralty , with con- sistorial courts in ...
... courts of Ireland are the Queen's Bench , Common Pleas , Exchequer , and Chancery . There is also , as in England , a bankrupt court , a court for the relief of insolvent debtors , a court of admiralty , with con- sistorial courts in ...
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... court , and signed the warrant for Charles's execution . On the establishment of the Commonwealth he was appointed to go to Ireland , next in command to Cromwell . He was made president of Munster , and afterwards lord - deputy of ...
... court , and signed the warrant for Charles's execution . On the establishment of the Commonwealth he was appointed to go to Ireland , next in command to Cromwell . He was made president of Munster , and afterwards lord - deputy of ...
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... court of the north , north - east , and north - west by the Alps , which sweep Louvre the pediments of the windows come immediately round it in a semicircle , beginning from the coast near beneath the architrave of the order , so that ...
... court of the north , north - east , and north - west by the Alps , which sweep Louvre the pediments of the windows come immediately round it in a semicircle , beginning from the coast near beneath the architrave of the order , so that ...
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... court of Frederic II . in the thirteenth cen- of the government , of the courts of justice , of the pulpit , and tury , and in which the history of that prince by the con- of the stage , and thus it has been styled emphatically the ...
... court of Frederic II . in the thirteenth cen- of the government , of the courts of justice , of the pulpit , and tury , and in which the history of that prince by the con- of the stage , and thus it has been styled emphatically the ...
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Page 358 - But, with us at present, the monuments and evidences of our legal customs are contained in the records, of the several courts of justice in books of *reports and judicial decisions, and in the treatises of learned sages of the profession, preserved and handed down to us from the times of highest antiquity.
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