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[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, James A. Landau wrote:

> Seriously, if you are interested in legal antedatings of the late 19th/early
> 20th century (I'm not), one place to look is "The Green Bag", which from 1889
> to 1914 pablished articles that "make an argument that merits more than a
> letter to the editor but fewer than fifty footnotes."  I don't know if it has been
> placed on-line.  It has recently been resurrected, see www.greenbag.org

The earliest occurrence in Green Bag is 1902.

Fred Shapiro


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