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  "title": "Importation Act 1667",
  "long_title": "A P. XII. An Additional Act against the Importation of Forreign Cattel",
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      "heading": "Recital of 18 Car. II. c.2 § 1.; and that notwithstanding the said Act great Numbers of Cattle, &c. have been imported, and that divers Churchwardens, &c. had combined with the Owners for colourable Seizures, and that others who had discharged their Duty had been molested by Suits in distant Counties;",
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      "heading": "Ships bringing Cattle, &c. from beyond Sea, to be forfeited, seized and sold.",
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      "heading": "Information laid in the same County where Cause of Action.",
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      "heading": "Confederacy to elude this Act, Premunire.",
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