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Of Forgery. Definition
judgment formed by him that such facts did or did
not happen so and so, it has the effect of expresing Assent: in
as far as they purport to be an expression of some act of his
Will, it has the effect of expressing Consent. (a)
3. An assertion of an ordinary matter of fact is in effect - Where the execution
imports assent.
neither more nor less than the expression of an affirmative judg-
ment formed concerning the exitence of such matter of fact;
for instance that Joseph i the son of Jacob whose discourse
the instrument purports to be. Of this nature are the recitals
in an ordinary deed. In this case it is an act of belief
that is expressed: an act of understanding.
4. To this will be is added an expression of volition, if the - Where it imports Consent.
instrument goes on and says that it is Thomas's will that
John
----- Note
(a) All the faculties of a man's mind are reducible to two, viz:
all the functions in like manner to two, intelliction and volition,
the understanding and the will: In consequence whatever it is
which a man by the authentication of an instrument can testi-
:fy himself to have done, must [ of one
kind or the other.] consist in the exercise of one of those
faculties or the other.
Identifier: | JB/071/085/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71. |
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not numbered |
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071 |
penal code |
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085 |
of forgery |
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003 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
4 |
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recto |
f101 / f102 / f103 / f104 |
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[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]] |
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caroline fox |
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23488 |
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