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  • Abridgement of Elliot Cohen's article, The End of Privacy by Richard Clark on Wednesday, Feb 13, 2008 at 3: 15: 49 PM

    Senate Caves Again, This time on FISA! 2008

  • Dane had written a most successful lawbook, A General Abridgement and Digest of American Law.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Dane had written a most successful lawbook, A General Abridgement and Digest of American Law.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Dane had written a most successful lawbook, A General Abridgement and Digest of American Law.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • The Canadian Abridgement is a precursor to the digests that began appearing in America in the late 1800s.

    Full-text versus digest searching — Slaw 2005

  • Yet Horace Walpole wrote a goblin tale which has thrilled through many a bosom; and George Ellis could transfer all the playful fascination of a humour, as delightful as it was uncommon, into his Abridgement of the Ancient Metrical Romances.

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Williams, B. (ed.), 1981, Obscenity and Film Censorship: An Abridgement of the Williams Report, New York: Cambridge University Press, esp.ch. 5, 7 and 8.

    Pornography and Censorship West, Caroline 2004

  • Palmer, of Hackney, published, in 1766, an Abridgement of it; but though it was scarcely possible to present the work in any form, without furnishing powerful and impressive appeals to the consciences of ministers, he essentially failed in presenting it in an improved form.

    The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

  • I should be glad to be informed on this point, and also respecting the paternity of this Sir Oliver, who is not only distinguished as one of the progenitors of the Sheridans, but also of Dr. William Chamberlaine, the learned author of the _Abridgement of the

    Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 Various

  • Abridgement of the Statutes from the 4th to the 9th Years of King

    The Annual Catalogue (1737) Or, A New and Compleat List of All The New Books, New Editions of Books, Pamphlets, &c. W. Warner

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