Fox's Lessee v. Palmer
This text of 2 U.S. 214 (Fox's Lessee v. Palmer) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of the United States primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
A subscribing witness attests nothing but the sealing and delivery of the deed: The date is a matter which he does not attest, and to which he seldom attends. By the rules of the Common Lav/, the fubferibing witneffes ihould be produced by the plaintiff to prove the execution of. the deed ; and furely it'would be their competent to the defendant to crofs-examine them, as to the real time of the delivery. But even if they were called to-contradict their own previous atteftation, the exception rather applies to their credit, than to their competency.
The objection over-ruled.
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