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1 story matching complaint
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:complain, complac, compliant, compli, plaint, complement
- The Rules of the Game: How Seattle's First Lawyers Codified the Fight for Land
When the Washington Territorial legislature overhauled the rules of civil procedure, they essentially wrote the blueprint for how Seattle’s developers and land speculators would battle over the city’s footprint for decades to come.