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Mostly legal advice by scholars connected to various Dutch (high) courts. Subject matters include the lawful use of a trademark in twain production; the legitimacy of taxing property held in a trust; the question whether alimony should be paid by a converted Jew to his - still Jewish - ex-wife; a settlement request by the suspended Drost of Gorinchem in a case of corruption; technicalities in a criminal procedure (incomplete summons, faulty procedural registration, refusal to hand out a copy of the verdict, no due process), the legal position of illegitimate vs. legitimate children as heirs, inheritance allocation of someone having died intestate in or en route to the East- or West-Indies or Brazil, partial non-compliance and violation of a contract for quarrying and transport of sandstone between the earl of Bentheim and the Rotterdam admiralty, the validity of a minor's confession, a drunkard's (unlawful) arrest by servants of the bailiff of Veere and a case of fraud and market cornering in the baleen trade.