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Timestamp: 2019-04-23 21:58:00+00:00

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duly acknowledged and recorded pursuant to laws in force at the time, shall be admitted in evidence without proof of its execution if the party desiring its introduction file it among the papers of the suit three days before the commencement of the trial and give notice of the filing to the opposite party, unless such opposite party, or someone for him, shall, within one day after the notice, file an affidavit that he believes the instrument to be forged. The same statute enacts that when a party shall file an affidavit of the loss of the recorded instrument or his inability to procure the original, a certified copy of the record shall be admitted in like manner as the original.
This latter provision does not dispense with the proof which is exacted when the original instrument is filed, in case an affidavit alleging a belief of its forgery is made; it only allows the certified copy to take the place of the original when that is lost or cannot be procured. It was not intended to give to the copy produced under such circumstances greater weight than to the original itself. To avail himself, therefore, of the statute, the party must in all cases file as therein prescribed the original or the copy from the record, and give notice of the filing, and even then the statutory proof will be insufficient if the affidavit alleging a belief of its forgery be made. Such affidavit being filed, the party relying upon the deed must make proof of its execution, with all its essential formalities, as required by the rule of the common law.
The court below held otherwise, and instructed the jury in substance that the affidavit with respect to the deed under which the defendants claimed in this case only laid the foundation upon which she might introduce evidence to sustain the charge and to show that such deed was in fact a forgery, and refused an instruction requested that under these circumstances it devolved upon the defendants to show the due execution of the instrument.
affidavit of his belief on the subject. The affidavit was only required to meet the notice under the statute, that the adverse party intended to rely upon the statutory proof.
No attempt was made to meet the requirements of the common law in the proof of the deed. The affidavits of its loss only negatived, upon information and belief, its possession by some of the defendants. Its possession by some of them was consistent with every averment made. The defendants relied alone upon the copy from the record, and the court erroneously held that such copy was sufficient.
Statute of May 11, 1846, relating to the organization &c., of the district courts; Oldham & White's Digest of Texas Laws, art. 469, pp. 124-125.
Jackson v. Phipps, 12 Johnson 419; Jackson v. Leek, 12 Wendell 105: Maynard v. Maynard, 10 Mass. 456; Wiggins v. Lusk, 12 Ill. 132; Roosevelt v. Carow, 6 Barbour 194; 2 Washburn on Real Property 581.

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