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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1668
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Usurp(e)ry, n. [Usurp(e v.] Usurpation. Also, the Usurpery, = Usurpatio(u)n n. c. —1668 Justiciary Ct. Rec. I 282.
Yet men cannot now be punished for contemning usurpry, no more than a man may be punished now for being in a parish where goods were taken away, which likewise was enacted under the usurpery and was a law then standing
