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1791. Third Term. [Wednesday] June 29.

now a Bond in the Language of the Law is not a Contract but a superior security.
It is not comprehended under the words Contract or Agreement in a Statute. Those and Bonds are always distinguish’d in Books of Law, there is not so much as a reference in an Abridgment, between the Title Bonds and Contracts –
It is a rule of Construction of Statutes that where inferior things are mention’d, superior are not included: So in this Case if Bonds were intended
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