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Same Day

Durgapersaud Shah}
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Lewis da Costa & }
George Germain }
Deft Brit: Subjts
The plaint begins with counting agt Lewis da Costa & G. G. being “Brit Subjects residing within the province of Bengal or settled Inhabts of Town of Calcutta, and who are for one or both of those reasons subject to the Jurisdiction of &c
It was doubted as first, whether this be a sufficient averment of the mode in which the Defts are subject to the jurisdon and Mr. Davies for Defts refused
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