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| Title | Bench and Bar: A Complete Digest of the Wit, Humor, Asperities, and Amenities of the Law Rediscovering America |
| Author | L. J. Bigelow |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harper & brothers, 1871 |
| Length | 532 pages |
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