To this the plaintiff replied that that was true, but that the term of which he was possessed was created four years before the defendant was possessed of his workshops and before he carried on his iron-mongery work there.
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To this the plaintiff replied that that was true, but that the term of which he was possessed was created four years before the defendant was possessed of his workshops and before he carried on his iron-mongery work there.
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NOTICE is hereby given that the business of butchery and fish-mongery carried out at Government Lane, Nairobi, on premises LR No 209/560, by Sadrudm Jamal Jiwa Mussa and Amina Sadrudin Jama Jiwa Mussa, both of Nairobi in the Republic of Kenya, under the name or style of Family Butcher and Fish Monger, has, as from the 20th day of June, 1973, been sold and transferred to Evangeline Celeste Muh and Benjamin Jacob Mwakio, Nairobi, who will carry on the said business at the same place and under the same name and style of Family Butcher.
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However, while there may be some truth in this opinion, it is an undeniable fact that prostitution poses a great threat to family peace and that the cases of marital dissolution multiply due to prostitute mongery.
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Alehouses were more frequented, drunkenness more general, tale-mongery and sedition, the vices of sedentary idleness, prevailed, while a fanatical gloom was spreading over the country.
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