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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The phrase " to operate on the lands," in a contract regulating the rights of associates in an adventure for purchasing and dealing with a tratt of land, was held to include not only offering the land for sale in parcels, at an advance, but also selling the timber to be cut and removed.
Eaton v. Smith, 20 Pick. 160.