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| Title | Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Volume 3 Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Sir John Taylor Coleridge |
| Author | William Blackstone |
| Editor | Sir John Taylor Coleridge |
| Edition | 16 |
| Publisher | A. Strahan, law-printer to the King, 1825 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 19 May 2006 |
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