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Show Kissing the Book. Tho exact 'origin of kissing tho Hook In Kngllsh courts, though modern, mod-ern, Is ohscuro. It Is not n matter of legal obligation but sccma to bo moro-ly moro-ly a custom dating from tho middle or end of tho eighteenth centurj If a witness claims to follow the law according ac-cording to Coko and to tnko his "cor-porul "cor-porul oath" bj touching 'In Hook who dmll reftire him his right' Tho "kissing net seems nkln In-' In-' - I to what tho "fancy" call, somo-. somo-. it mipii.131 ltly, a snllwi custom, . ih In Miidorn western life eslsts ti very fow forniB, though m.ii of I lowe: rlabses still "Bplt" on n In tor luck |