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Indirect

Corpus delicti


Wills are the sort of [deeds instruments (Lawyers will not
permitt them to be called by spoken of under that name)] which
there a man is most likely to be have occasion for a man to be executed
on the sudden without professional assistance and
without choice of witnesses. Wills also, different in
the respect
Moreover mistakes informalities Defects in wills can neither be car
corrected nor made amends for. On these accounts
there should be less strictness observed concerning these
than concerning deeds inter vivos. On the other
hand should any imposition be attempted
with regard to wills, the party is not alive for a certainty to contradict
it in the case of wills as he may very
likely be in the case of a deed.

Qu

This is one of those subject in which it is common there is
plenty of regulation to be met with, but little reasoning
to see abundance of regulations, but very little
of the reasons upon which they were grounded. This
is the more to be regretted as since of this branch of
law it might be said with more truth of this branch of the law than of
most others that a reason which [was] held good any
where must with very few exceptions be hold equally
good all the world over. in every civilized community.

The English statute 29 C. 2. c. 3.
which prescribes the formalities
to be observed in the execution of deeds
and wills is called intitled an act for the prevention of
frauds and perjuries: in familiar speech the statute
of


















Identifier: | JB/087/161/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

087

Main Headings

indirect legislation

Folio number

161

Info in main headings field

indirect

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f13 / f14 / f15 / f16

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

27686

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