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1791. Third Term. [Tuesday] June 28.

The Plea in this Case is founded on an alledged illegality created by a Statute enacted for the benefit of the East India Company. This offence [there?], if any, is against the Revenue Laws of the East India Company: but as Lord Manfield says of the Revenue Laws of England in the Case of Holman and Johnson in Cowper 344, the Question says he is whether the Demand is founded on an immoral
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