Case Name: Miller vs. Keen
Court: Cass County Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1870
Citations: 1 Mich. N.P. R. 238
Docket Number: 
Parties: Miller vs. Keen.
Judges: 
Reporter: The Michigan Nisi Prius Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 238–238

Head Matter:
Miller vs. Keen.
The subscription of a notary public to a jurat need not be sealed.
Cass Circuit,
1870.
Suit on a note. The defendant had filed with his plea an affidavit denying his signature, &c. Sworn before a notary public,. The jurat was under the notary’s hand, but not under seal.
Atwell, for Plaintiff,
contended that § 461, G. L., required there should be a seal to the jurat or it was not evidence.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Blackman, J.
The simple point to the objection is, that there is no proof of the swearing of the affiant, because no seal is attached to the notary's signature. Paragraph 461, C. L., does not say " his certificate without a seal shall not be evidence.'' The whole section, however, evidently refers to his acts under mercantile law, which requires a seal to his certificate.
It has never been the practice to affix his seal to acts authorized by the statute solely. ,