The Misdemeanor Proof of Insurance: A Proposal for Reform

Scholarship

PUBLISHER

Georgia State Bar Journal

DATE

1993

Darryl K. Brown

Darryl K. Brown, The Misdemeanor Proof of Insurance: A Proposal for Reform, 29 Georgia State Bar Journal 164-167 (1993).

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