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Properly speaking, the removal of a suit begun in one county or district to another county or district for trial, though the term is also sometimes applied to the removal of a suit from one court to another court of the same county or district. Dudley v. Power Co., 139 Ala. 453, 3G South. 700; Felts v. Railroad Co., 195 Pa. 21, 45 Atl. 493;

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