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Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill, Pennsylvania (1853)

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Stowe v. Thomas, Complainant's Bill, Pennsylvania (1853), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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advantage; and your Oratrix hath actually sold, and
caused to be sold the said Book, at a reasonable
price; and hath been, and is, in the enjoyment of the
profits of the same. And your Oratrix was in
hopes she should have continued so to print, publish
and sell the said Book, and enjoyed the sole benefit,
profit and advantage arising therefrom; without her
right thereto being infringed upon, or having any
molestation or hindrance therein, by any person whomsoever.
And that your Oratrix should have enjoyed the sole
benefit and right to the same, without any encroachment
thereon, as in justice and equity ought to have been the case.
            And your Orators further shew unto your Honors;
that she said defendant, F. W. Thomas, has, since the
printing and publication of the said Book, and since
the securing of the Copyright thereof by your Oratrix
as aforesaid, to wit, on the first day of January,
1853, at the Eastern District of Pennsylvania aforesaid,
translated and copied into the German language, and
printed, published, sold and exposed to sale, and
caused to be translated and copied into the German
language, and printed, published, sold and exposed
to sale, in the number for the day last aforesaid
of a certain daily Newspaper, called "Die Freie Presse",
pages thirteen to twenty inclusive, and part of page
twenty-one of your Oratrix's said Book.
            That the said defendant has, since the ~
printing and publication of the said Book, and since
the securing of the copyright thereof by your Oratrix
as aforesaid, to wit, on the third day of January,
1853, at the District last aforesaid, translated and
copied into the German language, and printed, published, [sold

    

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