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TAKE THE QUIZ“first instance”
The following 2 entries include the term first instance.
court of first instance
: the court first taking jurisdiction of a case compare court of appeal
in the first instance
idiom: before other events happen : as the first thing in a series of actions
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- Before we went to her house, Hannah told us her aunt was a flibbertigibbet.


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