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  • Even as Southey and his lawyers moved in Chancery for an injunction against the continued publication of his dramatic poem, two letters in support of Southey by his friend (and, many argued, fellow apostate)

    The Critical Reception of Robert Southey's _Wat Tyler_ 2007

  • I didn't know who to call, so I called the Chancery and Bishop answered the phone.

    Remembering Bishop Tschoepe | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • [Return to the letter] 5 In 1823 George Keats applied for his share of a fund left in Chancery for the Keats children by their grandfather, John Jennings.

    New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

  • Although by the time the Baby Boom, that entrenched Court of Chancery, is done with its Jarndyce v. Jarndyce of a national patrimony, youth won't be very young.

    Two Cheers for Hypocrisy P. J. O'Rourke 2006

  • Although by the time the Baby Boom, that entrenched Court of Chancery, is done with its Jarndyce v. Jarndyce of a national patrimony, youth won't be very young.

    Two Cheers for Hypocrisy P. J. O'Rourke 2006

  • Note 39: Complaint in Chancery, Josiah Wedgwood, plaintiff, James Neale, defendant, On the Issue of an Infringement of Patent for Encaustic painting [draft] (1771) Wedgwood Ms. Mosley Collection 1829; Turner v. Winter King's Bench, 5 February 1787, in Decisions on the Law of Patents for Inventions Rendered by English Courts Since the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 1, comp. and annot.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Although by the time the Baby Boom, that entrenched Court of Chancery, is done with its Jarndyce v. Jarndyce of a national patrimony, youth won't be very young.

    Two Cheers for Hypocrisy P. J. O'Rourke 2006

  • From 1887 to 1906, Cecil's career was a legal one, involving most of the forms of common law, occasional efforts in Chancery, and a steadily increasing parliamentary practice.

    Robert Cecil - Biography 1937

  • Inn, together with a number of others known as Chancery Inns, which have of late years disappeared.

    Ethics in Service William H. Taft 1893

  • But the way soon sank into a wooded hollow, where uncared-for timber, avenues all overgrown with weeds and bushes, and a deserted mansion – it had been years in Chancery – seemed to burden the air with memories.

    Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor 1874

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