{"id":423,"date":"2013-06-18T03:19:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T09:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2013-06-18T03:19:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T09:19:53","slug":"reports-of-cases-ruled-and-adjudged-in-the-courts-of-pennsylvania-before-and-since-the-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/18\/reports-of-cases-ruled-and-adjudged-in-the-courts-of-pennsylvania-before-and-since-the-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Courts of Pennsylvania Before and Since the Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I obtained a copy of <em>Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Courts of Pennsylvania Before and Since the Revolution<\/em> by A. J. Dallas, Esquire. Cited as 1 Dall., the volume provides cases from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and other courts. For a 220+ year old book, the text is pretty clean for the most part, and I&#8217;ve been adding images to older cases, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/ussc\/1\/1-us-8.html\">Price v. Watkins<\/a>, and cleaning some of the original transcription.<\/p>\n<p>The difficulty is when I come across a word that I do not recognize. It could be because the word is no longer in use.  Or, it could be because of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_s\">long s<\/a> problem, which should be familiar to anyone who has seen a copy of the Bill of Rights: &#8220;Congrefs shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the prefs, or the right of the people peaceably to afsemble, and to petition the Government for a redrefs of grievances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not too difficult to figure out that Congrefs is Congress, prefs is press, afsemble is assemble, etc. Now, in the sixth line of <em>Price v. Watkins<\/em>, I came across a word that appeared to be Mefiuage. Interestingly, I searched for mefiuage in Google and saw a result from Dictionary.com, which just reported &#8220;no dictionary results.&#8221;  The other results were scans from old texts.  I got the same results searching for Mefluage.<\/p>\n<p>However, in looking at some other texts, the term clearly appears as Meffuage, which is really (because of the long s) Messuage.  That does make sense since <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Messuage\">Messuage<\/a> is an archaic term for a dwelling house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I obtained a copy of Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Courts of Pennsylvania Before and Since the Revolution by A. J. Dallas, Esquire. Cited as 1 Dall., the volume provides cases from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and other courts. For a 220+ year old book, the text is pretty clean for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}