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GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Law) a reported decision which has come to be regarded as settling the law of the question involved.
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“In West v. Shuttleworth (above), which is the leading case on the subject, Pepys M.R. stated that it was by analogy to the statute that the illegality of these bequests had become established.”
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