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| Title | Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Chancery of the State of New Jersey, Volume 38 |
| Author | New Jersey. Court of Chancery |
| Publisher | Soney & Sage, 1884 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 May 2008 |
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