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Indirect
Corpus delicti
Forgery in the way of fabrication
IV There is an expedient which [against forgery
in the way of fabrication] would answer might serve on in
some degree the purpose of an inferior degree as a succedaneum for registration. A particular
sort of paper [or parchment] being required for the deed in question
As the retailer might be forbidden to furnish it without
indorsing upon it the year and day when sold,
together with the several particulars necessary to identify
the person who sold it as well as the person who
applied for it. It would be necessary that The distribution of the paper must should
for this purpose be confined to known persons of whom
lists should be published and to whom all recourse
might be had in case of suspicion to know whether
a given paper purporting to be by any of them
were genuine. As a chec It would be necessary that
books should be kept by each person and entries
made accordingly both as a check and as a help to
recollection: which books upon the death of any such
distributor should be deposited in some certain office.
This would prevent the fabrication of deeds and
other instruments purporting to be of distant date.
It would be a further check if the paper
in question were to be required to be of no older date
than the year in which the conve deed purported purports to
be executed: or [to make allowance for stock remaining
unsold on hand,] of the year before: the d age of the paper to appear
by the a conspicuous mark such as is given to
the
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