The settled property consisted largely of land which was farmed by a family company called G . W . Nurse & Co . Ltd . The company had farmed the land for many years and, until March 1984, it had held a tenancy of the land.
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Although the First Amendment states explicitly that courts are restricted from delving into the evaluation of religious documents in settling property disputes, or other issues that have been settled in an ecclesiastical court or judicatory of a hierarchical church, Rehnquist was arguing that courts should in some cases be able to interpret church law under neutral principles.
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The second document is a legal judgment signed before " the Counselors of King, Notary Publics in the Ch�telet of Paris " on November 22, 1786, which settled property ownership issues between Thomas-Alexandre Dumas ( then known as Thomas Rethor?) and his step-mother, Marie Fran�oise Elisabeth Retou ( widow of his father, Alexandre-Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie ).
