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- [I]t is requisite that the good people of this commonwealth, who have adopted the common law of England, should enjoy the full benefit thereof by the erection of a competent jurisdiction within this state for the hearing, determining and judging in the last instance upon complaints of error at common law; and also . . . of the court of admiralty . . . and likewise . . . of the several registers of wills and for granting administrations. (en)
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