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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A part separated from the rest, a division, a portion, as, specifically, a distinct part of a book or writing; the subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing, a paragraph, an article.
State v. Babcock, 23 Neb. 128, 3G N. W. 348.
The smallest numbered subdivision of a statute, code, text-book, etc., which contains a distinct subject. A paragraph ( q. v.); an article.
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