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Snow Falling on Cedars
- The witness makes reference to a currently defunct statute of the State of Washington which made it illegal at the time of which she speaks for an alien, a noncitizen, to hold title to real estate.†
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- "However," he said, "let it be known that this court is not concerned with any perpetrators of violations against our state's now— blessedly so—defunct Alien Land Law.†
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Definition:
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(defunct) no longer in force; or having ceased to exist or live