JB/087/152/003

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unnecessary invalidation of deeds and other legal documents have been unnecessarily
invalidated for more injustice hardship perhaps has been done created
upon the whole than has been prevented. It is a bad
case bad enough where these hasty invalidations are created by [with
notice] in the way of statute law: when done created
in the way of common law it is much still worse. A man
is ruined for want of conforming to an arbitrary
standard which, till the time of trial came, had
no existence so much as in the mind of the Judge
who set it up. [This however is the way in which a great
part of the customary law in every country has
always been put together: more especially of the English
law in which this sort of caprice seems to have born
a more than ordinary sway].

If any failure in point of formality might
to be made a ground of invalidation it should be such
an one as regards a very simple point, such as
the number of attesting witnesses, about which it was
next to impossible [there should be any mistake] any
misapprehension should take place: and even here great
care should be taken that the formalities thus made requisite
were such as a man would always be sure to have it in
his power to observe: otherwise to provide an in the alternative
another which might be observed instead of it.

It

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	152	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27677
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