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Indirect
Corpus delicti
Of What instruments ought the registration register'd memorial to
be secret and of what open and of what secret?
Deeds inter vivos in which strangers third parties persons may
be concerned such as judgments sales of immovables and settlements
the sales settlements and mortgages of iommovables ought to be open. Wills ought to be
kept inviolably secret during the life-time of
the testator: other instruments such as bonds,
agreements, apprenticeships indentures, marriage-settlements
during the not charging land might
be kept secret generally subject only to be
communicated to persons who can make a special
title to the liberty of inspection.
Register offices should be divided each into
The open and the secret, the voluntary and
the necessary would make so many departments
into which each register-office should be divided.
Would the voluntary be unfrequented? with unemploy'd? I do not
think it, if the price were moderate. It is matter
of prudence to keep more than one copy for fear
of accidents: and when that is done, why may not
one copy be lodged in a public office as well as
any where else? In this way men might ensure their
title deeds against accidents as they do their goods; only
at a much less price. For a copy taken and
filed
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