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Indirect
Corpus delicti
And With regard to the inability of complying
with the certain formalities allowance might require to
be made in different ways according to the nature
of the instrument. As if circumstances should
require that the instrument should be executed
at a time or place where the proper sort of
paper or the requisite number of witnesses were
not to be had. The deed might stand good for
a till a certain time within which it
were clear the disability impediment might be removed: as
as also for ever in case of death the decease of
the party in the mean time. A declaration of
the fact of such impediment should also be required
to be made in some public way, in such manner
that as not to be counterfeited in support
of any suppostitious instrument.
It is obvious that more latitude would be
requisite to be given and at the same time more caution to be
observed in the allowance of such latitude in the
case of wills than in the case of deeds inter
vivos. On the one hand death will not always
wait for the the appearance of a lawyer, nor of for a sufficient number of
witnesses against whom the sempulosity of the law can find nothing
to except. object. On the other hand And these wills
wills are a sort of
And [wills,] as they the contents of wills are commonly locked up in the breast
of a single person, any defects there may happen to be in attend the execution of instruments deeds them are the
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