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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
pleading. This word means the substance of it as it appears on the face of it to the eye that reads it, it differs from tenor, v.) 2 Russ. on Cr. 365; 1 Chit. (9. r. Law, 235; 1 East, R. 179, and the cases in the notes.