Humphries v. Nix
Humphries v. Nix
Opinion of the Court
An instrument which has, at the end of the note, the words “ signed and sealed,” followed by the signature and the scroll for a seal with “L. S.” written across it, is equivalent to (he words, “ witness my hand and seal,” followed in the same way, and is a compliance with the statute, Code, §2915, which enacts that “no instrument shall be considered under seal, unless so recited in the body of the instrument.” “ Signed and sealed” are as much in the body of the instrument as “ witness my hand and seal” in
Judgment affirmed.
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