2 Watts 31 | Pa. | 1833
There is an objection not made,-it would seem, in the court below, which is decisively fatal to the defendant’s title.. It appears, from the original conveyance produced at the argument, that the probate of the deed by which he claims, was not authenticated by the seal of the justice, without which the probate is vicious and the recording void. To show that the seal is required, we have but to turn to the second and third sections of the act of 1715, by which it is made an integral part of the certificate of authentication; the principle of which tacitly pervades all subsequent provisions, at least as regards authentication by justices of the peace. Indeed the
Judgment of the court below reversed, and judgment entered here for the plaintiffs.
Duncan v. Duncan, 1 Watts’s Rep. 322.—Reporter.