Parsons, Theophilus, 1750-1813. Precedents book of Massachusetts law, 1775. HLS MS 1091, Harvard Law School Library. (Colonial North America: Harvard Law School Library)

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Needs Review

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been put to great expense in repairing and refitting the said shiup and unlading her said cargo and relading the same on board other vessells, and hath wholly lost the use of the said Shiup from that time to this all which is ad [damsonum?] iof the said S.

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Declaration in Dower

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A.B. of ____ is summoned to answer to C. D. of ____ and E. F. his wife in a plea of dower wherein they demand against the said A. B. her reasonable dower in a certain parcel of land situate in ____ containing ____ acres and bounded ____ with the dwelling house and all the buildings thereon and appurtenances whereof she hath nothing as they say whereupon the said C. D. & E. F. complain that one I. C. late of ____ now deceased formerly the husband of the said E. F. was seized in his demesne as of fee of the premisses during the coverture of the said ~~F. C. and~~ E. F. with the said I. C. and that since the decease of the said I. C. andd for more than one month before the day of the purchase of this writ to wit on the ____ day of ____ the said E. F. demanded of the said A.B. then & ever since [tenant in prossessioin having the imediate estate of freehold in of] the premisses to assign and set out to her, her reasonable dower in the premises which the said A. B. hath altogether refused to do but hath [deforceth?] and still [deforceth?] the PM thereof to the damage of the said C. D. & E. F. as they say the form of ++++