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Note: I inserted the word Lawfull due to the UCMJ. that word is not in the Current oath.
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There are rules in it that only allow police officers to ask for ID "s if they have stopped someone for a" Lawfull "reason like a traffic stop, or some other reason a police officer may have a" Reasonable "justification to stop someone.
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Mr. Tyler has made the purchase at a thousand pounds Lawfull Money.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 27 December 1783 1993
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Instead of 60 pounds Lawfull, he requested me to sign a Bill for 60 Sterling, as that was just the sum he wanted, and that it would oblige him.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 11 February 1784 1993
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What shall I say -- why that I have paid 21 hundred pounds since last july, Lawfull money, and have a thousand pound still to pay, and that you have enabled me to do it -- but I do not increase in wealth, nor yet diminish the capital.
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I have occasion for only a pair of cart wheels for which I must give 60 pounds Lawfull money.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 15 July 1778, draft 1973
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People here tell me that it was formerly valued at a hundred pounds Lawfull money.
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I can receive four pounds Lawfull money here for one pound Sterling paid in France.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 29 September 1778, draft 1973
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I inquired the price of a new carrage the other day and found it to be no more than 300 pounds Lawfull money -- at this rate I never will ask for a supply of this light commodity from any Body let my situation be what it will.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 15 July 1778, draft 1973
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(The Quarterly tax for the state and continent amounts to 7 hundred pounds Lawfull, my part.)
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