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It may interest you to know that I have secured from the probate an order of madamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries.
That's So Wizard! 2005
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It may interest you to know that I have secured from the probate an order of madamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries.
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"Writs not ministerially directed (sometimes called prerogative writs, because they are supposed to issue on the part of the King), such as writs of madamus, prohibition, habeas corpus, certiorari, are restricted by no clause in the constitution given to Berwick: upon a proper case they may issue to every dominion of the Crown of England.
The story of the life of John Anderson : the fugitive slave ed. 1863
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