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England and Wales

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England and Wales

(UK, law) The jurisdiction covering England and Wales, two constituent countries of the United Kingdom, which share a single legal system and are treated as a single country for various purposes.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see England,‎ Wales.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together. Éamon de Valera

Abel, England and Wales, 1 and 141. The solicitor retained a barrister if one was necessary and acted as an intermediary between the barrister and the client. Source: Internet

Across England and Wales, towns and villages are under floodwater; fires have raged from Australia to the Amazon; and globally we’re in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, in which we stand to lose up to a million species. Source: Internet

26 November 1996) General Register Office for England and Wales - Death Register for November 1996, Sutton Registration District, Reference C6B 296, listed as "Michael James Bentine" with a date of birth of 26 January 1922. Source: Internet

“A few bits and bobs of rain elsewhere in England and Wales but actually, with the worst of the weather having cleared through, a cloud will be left and a strong wind that’s going to stay strong during the morning and early afternoon.” Source: Internet

According to the Woodland Trust, ancient woods are areas of woodland that have continued to have tree cover since 1600 in England and Wales and 1750 in Scotland. Source: Internet

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