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  2. Rule against perpetuities - Wikipedia

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    The rule against perpetuities serves a number of purposes. First, English courts have long recognized that allowing owners to attach long-lasting contingencies to their property harms the ability of future generations to freely buy and sell the property, since few people would be willing to buy property that had unresolved issues regarding its ownership hanging over it.

  3. Exemplified copy - Wikipedia

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    The clerk then swears to the authenticity of the judge's signature, incumbency, and authority. The certificate page with the triple authentication is called the exemplification. A copy of this type is normally required by other states and countries when copies are being submitted for filing in their local court.

  4. Case citation - Wikipedia

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    Case citation is a system used by legal professionals to identify past court case decisions, either in series of books called reporters or law reports, or in a neutral style that identifies a decision regardless of where it is reported. Case citations are formatted differently in different jurisdictions, but generally contain the same key ...

  5. Community property in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In others (so-called "Civil Law" states), the income from separate property is community property. The right of a creditor to reach community property in satisfaction of a debt or other obligation incurred by one or both of the spouses also varies from state to state. [citation needed]

  6. United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois

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    In 1837, Congress created the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, placing it in Chicago, Illinois and giving it jurisdiction over the District of Illinois, 5 Stat. 176. [5] On February 13, 1855, by 10 Stat. 606, the District of Illinois was subdivided into Northern and the Southern Districts. [5]

  7. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

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    death 12 George True Page: IL: 1859–1941 1919–1930 — 1930–1941 Wilson: death 13 Albert Barnes Anderson: IN: 1857–1938 1925–1929 — 1929–1938 Coolidge: death 14 William Morris Sparks: IN: 1872–1950 1929–1948 1948 1948–1950 Hoover: death 15 Louis Fitzhenry: IL: 1870–1935 1933–1935 — — F. Roosevelt: death 16 James Earl ...

  8. United States District Court for the Northern District of ...

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    In 1837, Congress created the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, placing it in Chicago, Illinois and giving it jurisdiction over the District of Illinois, 5 Stat. 176. [ 4 ] The Northern District itself was created by a statute passed on February 13, 1855, 10 Stat. 606 , which subdivided the District of Illinois into the ...

  9. Vital statistics (government records) - Wikipedia

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    A vital statistics system is defined by the United Nations "as the total process of (a) collecting information by civil registration or enumeration on the frequency or occurrence of specified and defined vital events, as well as relevant characteristics of the events themselves and the person or persons concerned, and (b) compiling, processing, analyzing, evaluating, presenting, and ...