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7. Hale is best known for his "History of the Pleas of the Crown," a treatise published posthumously in

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Thu May 12, 2022, 04:12 AM

May 2022

1736 that became wildly popular with judges and lawyers in England and America. In my years studying women’s legal history, I have read hundreds of American judicial opinions quoting Hale’s treatise.

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