Bill of Peace
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Bill of Peace
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Bill of Peace was an English court practice used in the 17th and 18th centuries for legal disputes involving multiple parties that shared common aspects. It allowed the English Court of Chancery to settle the rights of parties, a group known as the "multitude", in one suit, in equity court. If the equity court allowed the matter to proceed as a Bill of Peace, the results of the suit would bind all members of the “multitude,” whether they actually appeared in the case or not. The Bill was limited
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Peace
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2022-08-20T19:09:24Z
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