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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
withut 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 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 on which there is
plenty of regulation to be met with, but little reasoning it is common 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 than of of this branch of the law
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 familiary speech the statute
of
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