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Excerpt from The Office and Duties of Coroners in Pennsylvania: An Essay Awarded the Peter Stephen Duponceau Prize, by the Law Academy of Philadelphia
The second point of interest which draws our atten tion is that in obscure times the othee of coroner and the methods of his inquest may have had much to do with the rise and development of the system of trial by jury (v) The discussion of this topic properly belongs in another part of this work.
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