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| Title | Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, in the Year ..., Volume 25 |
| Author | Georgia. Supreme Court |
| Publisher | Edward O. Jenkins, 1859 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 8 May 2008 |
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