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The results for equations and systems of orders 2 and $2m$ and quadrature approximations appear elsewhere. The classical theory of discretization methods is applied to the differential operator or the combined differential and the boundary operator. The consistency error for satisfied or violated boundary conditions on polyhedral or curved domains has to be estimated. The stability has to be proved in an unusual way. This is the hard core of the paper. Essential tools are linearization, a compactness argument, the interplay between the weak and strong form of the linearized operator, and a new regularity result for solutions of finite element equations. An essential basis for our proofs are Davydov's results for $C^1$ FEs on polyhedral domains in ${\\bf R}^n$ or of local degree 5 for $C^2$ domains in ${\\bf R}^2$. Better convergence and extensions to ${\\bf R}^n$ for $C^2$ domains are to be expected from his forthcoming results on curved domains. Our proof for the second case in ${\\bf R}^n$, includes the first essentially as a special case. The method applies to quasi-linear elliptic problems not in divergence form as well. 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