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Indirect
Corpus delicti
thought , would not by any means be useless.
In
matters of this sort people are ready enough in
general to follow the patterns that are set before
them by authorities much inferior to that of the legislature.
Were such advice then to be given, the probability
is that in general it would be taken: especially
if the neglect compliance with of it were to be sanctioned enforced punished
by some trifling penalty imposed upon the party
in fault, not upon persons as yet unborn as is oftentimes the
case where it insists in the invalidity
of the instrument.
the deed instrument is render'd void. Assuring them
that the formalities recommended would in general
be observed, if then upon any occasion any of
the non-observance of them upon any occasion would naturally
put people upon fr their guard: is a circumstance that would naturally be taken notice of suspicion would
arise: and nothing less than a very strong apprearance
of fairness, such an appearance as fraud
would in all likelyhood find it impossible to put
on would be sufficient to enable the [credit of the]
deed to bear the test of examination an inquiry.]
Should the Let the observance of them becomes general,
any instance to the contrary would naturally
produce such a body of suspicion as fraud would find
it very difficult to get over encounter . That they would the observance
of them would be general be generally observed, and even universal errors excepted
where the transaction was a fair one might,
I think, not unreasonably be assumed: in matters
of
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