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| Title | Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Mode of Taking Evidence in Chancery, and Its Effects Volume 2698 of House of Commons papers: 1860 |
| Author | Great Britain. Royal Commission to inquire into the mode of taking evidence in chancery |
| Publisher | H.M. Stationery Office, 1860 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 61 pages |
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