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Opus-the-Penguin t1_j6nvya6 wrote

I think "Wherefore, applicant prays" was my favorite part. Everything else was just uh huh, uh huh, yep, that's the way things were back then. But "prays" instead of, say, "requests" really caught me off guard and made it real.

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elzibet OP t1_j6nwkkp wrote

Yes! The prays was so interesting to me

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iamboard2 t1_j6nzpuk wrote

The use of the word "prays" when requesting something from a judge/court is still regularly used in petitions.

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