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Indirect
Corpus delicti
be perceptible: additional figures may also be slipt in: a bond for
100£ may be turned into one of for a thousand. In formal instruments
drawn by lawyers this caution is I believe seems to be very regularly observed.
8. Instructions upon the plan of those given
above or upon any other plan that shall may be
thought more eligible should be printed on the
back or margin of one sheet of at least of
every parcel of paper or one skin of every parcel
of parchment that is made use of for a deed.
Should they be given as instructions only?
or should they the observance of any of them be enforced made
obligatory under pain of invalidity? Those given
under the second head are in the nature mere
matter of description: the others might be are capable of being made
matter of obligation, which however they ought not
to be without making liberal allowance for contingencies.
These contingencies to be are in the first place, inability
to comply with the requisition: in the next
place, misapprehension with regard to the proper
of complying with it. As to the latter
point I would scarcely never venture to make the instructions
obligatory without giving a discretionary
power to the judge to dispense with any of the
formalities in case of its appearing to him that
the non-observance of it proceeded merely from was owing to
misconception: as if a mistake were one day of the month or one parish were put
for the next, or the parish or the occupier of the
house mis-named through mis-information, and the like.
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