destroying papers

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• Destroying

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Destroy>>. ...

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• walking papers

  Orders to leave; a dismissal. When a person is appointed to a public office, or receives a commissio...

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• false papers

  Frequently carried by slavers and smugglers. ...

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• ship's papers

  Documents descriptive of a vessel, her owners, cargo, destination, and other particulars necessary f...

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• verification of ship's papers

  In this necessary process it is declared that papers of themselves prove nothing, and require to be ...

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• spoliation of a ship's papers

  An act which, by the maritime law of every court in Europe, not only excludes further proof, but doe...

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