Opinion in the case Trustees of Dartmouth College vs. Wm. H. Woodward.

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Opinion in the case Trustees of Dartmouth College vs. Wm. H. Woodward.

Text of Chief Justice Marshall's opinion in an unidentified hand; extracts from the opinion in the hand of William Allen, President of Dartmouth University (1817-1819).

32, [28] p. ; 25 cm. or smaller.

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