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This article explores the enactment of the Civil Wrongs Ordinance in Mandate Palestine in order
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David B. Schorr has published Against “Anglicization”: Class, Codification, and the Common Law in Palestine’s Civil Wrongs Ordinance in Law and History Review:
This article explores the enactment of the Civil Wrongs Ordinance in Mandate Palestine in order to
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