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  • Domiciliary visits were enjoined upon the proper officers.

    The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

  • Domiciliary visits are unfrequent in England, but the Jew was not certain enough to stand upon a legal technicality.

    The Grell Mystery Frank Froest

  • Domiciliary search was so much abused that it had to be forbidden, for the volunteers took to entering any house they chose, and roughly examined the persons of natives to see if they had the _Katipunan_ brand.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • Domiciliary arrest and judicial reprimand may be substituted for other punishments; admonition, surveillance, and forced residence in a certain place are additional punishments.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Dauphin, at Fête of Federation of 1792, [6], [8]; sees Malouet, [12] "Domiciliary visits," [17-20]

    Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney 1904

  • Domiciliary arrests, indeed, which the Italian penal code applies only to women and minors for a first contravention of the law, with detention in the house, cannot be made effective.

    Criminal Sociology 1899

  • Domiciliary visits, the intrusion of the Vigilance police into the homes of citizens, of every house and room in which it was suspected McGowan would be caught.

    The Vigilance Committee of 1856 James O'Meara 1864

  • Domiciliary visits [2130] and disarmament everywhere force nobles and ecclesiastics, landed proprietors and people of culture, to abandon their homes, to seek refuge in the large towns and to emigrate, [2131] or, at least, confine themselves strictly to private life, to abstain from all propaganda, from every candidature, and from all voting.

    The French Revolution - Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • Domiciliary visits were made with great and gloomy ceremony; a large number of persons whose condition, opinions, or conduct rendered them objects of suspicion, were thrown into prison.

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

  • 'Domiciliary visits,' with rigour of authority, be made to this end.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

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