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regulated in detail by the statutes of the several States, we have in many instances presented the principles adopted in the State of New York as the most generic exponent of American Law. But we have spared no pains to gather and present the laws of all the States, upon those subjects in reference to which the practitioner in any State is liable to be called on to draft papers or determine their sufficiency, according to the laws of other States than his own.

BENJAMIN VAUGHAN ABBOTT.
AUSTIN ABBOTT.

NEW YORK, April, 1866.

CONTENTS.

Short Form...

CHAPTER I.

ABANDONMENT.

Abandonment of vessel and cargo, with assignment, power of attor

ney and covenant for further assurance..

NO.

OF FORM. PAGE.

1 2

2 2

CHAPTER II.

ABSTRACTS OF TITLE.

General Form..

3 5

CHAPTER III.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND PROOF OF DEEDS.

I. OATHS AND AFFIRMATIONS, ADMINISTERED ORALLY TO WIT-

NESSES IN TAKING ACKNOWLEDGMENT OR PROOF.

Oath of a subscribing witness, taken upon the Evangelists..

The same, taken by uplifting the hand..

Affirmation of subscribing witness..

Oath of a witness to identity of party or subscribing witness,

taken on the Evangelists...

The same, taken by uplifting the hand.

Affirmation of witness to identity of party or subscribing

witness...

II. CERTIFICATES OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND PROOF FOR THE

VARIOUS STATES, ETC.

Acknowledgment by a grantor known to the officer.....

By a grantor not personally known...

By husband and wife, of a joint deed of the wife's land..

By the same, of a joint deed of the husband's land..

Proof by subscribing witness...

Proof by handwriting of grantor and subscribing witnesses.. 17 23

CALIFORNIA.

Acknowledgment by one or more grantors known to the officer 18 24

The same, where wife joins....

By a grantor not personally known to the officer.

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20

NO.

OF FORM. PAGE.

Proof by subscribing witness personally known to the officer 21

By one not personally known...

The same by husband and wife, where she resides in the Ter-

ritory

25

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23 26

24 26

25 26

26 27.

27 27

28 27

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88 88

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28

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FLORIDA.

Acknowledgment...

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30

The same, by husband and wife.

35

30

Acknowledgment before commissioner, of deed executed or

acknowledged without the State, by grantor not personally

known...

Acknowledgment before judge in a city or county where

there is no Florida commissioner...

Acknowledgment or proof taken without the State by Geor-

gia commissioner...

40

32

41

32

Acknowledgment within the State by a grantor personally

known to the officer....

The same, by husband and wife, where wife relinquishes

dower.

Acknowledgment within the State, where a grantor is not

personally known..

Acknowledgment without the State, where the grantor is

personally known..

The same, where he is not personally known.

Acknowledgment without the State, by husband and wife,

where wife relinquishes dower..

By the same, of a conveyance of the estate of the wife..

Acknowledgment without the State, by attorney in fact..

Proof without the State, by a subscribing witness...

The same, when the grantor and subscribing witnesses are

dead or cannot be produced............

.......

Certificate of clerk to acknowledgment taken according to the

laws of another State...

INDIANA.

Acknowledgment...

Declaration to bar dower of wife under age..

Where the parties are not personally known..

IOWA.

NO.

OF FORM.

Acknowledgment by grantor personally known to the officer 56

By sheriff.....

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57

38

58

38

Proof by witness, where the grantor is dead or cannot be

procured, or refuses to acknowledge...

Affidavit to be affixed to mortgages of land and to mortgages

or bills of sale of personal property....

67

43

43

69

The same, by husband and wife..

Proof by subscribing witness..

Authentication of acknowledgment taken by a judge without

the State..

MISSOURI.

Acknowledgment by grantor personally known to the officer 85 49

By grantor not personally known..

By husband and wife, to extinguish dower..

By the same, to convey wife's estate...

Acknowledgment of conveyance by power of attorney.

Proof by witness, where grantor is dead, or cannot be pro-

cured, or refuses to acknowledge.

Acknowledgment within the State, by a grantor known or

identified..

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94 52

95 52

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97 53

98 53

99 53

101

54

Acknowledgment by a grantor personally known to the officer 100

By a grantor not personally known..

By husband and wife...

NEW YORK.

Acknowledgment within the State, by grantor known to the

officer....

By one of several grantors known to the officer.

By grantor, after attaining majority, to confirm deed executed

during minority..

120

Proof within the State, by subscribing witness known to the

officer...

121

By subscribing witness, not kħown..

122

By subscribing witness as to husband, and acknowledgment

as to wife, both known to officer...

123

The same,

where neither are known.

124 61

By subscribing witness known to officer, where grantors are

husband and wife residing without the State..

125

The same, where witness is not known...

126

By subscribing witness, known to the officer, deed being ex-

ecuted by attorney.

Proof of deed of a corporation, signed by the president, known

to the officer...

128

The same of a deed signed by the president and cashier or

secretary, and proved by the latter.

129

Of a deed by a religious corporation.

130

The same of a deed signed by the rector and proved by the

clerk.

131

Proof of deed by municipal corporation..

132

Petition for a subpoena to compel a subscribing witness to

prove the execution of a conveyance.