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137 Mass. 109

Meserve v. Commonwealth

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1884-04-01

Writ oe error, to reverse a judgment rendered for the Commonwealth, at June term 1881 of the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk, for the transaction of criminal business, upon an indictment in eight counts.

Decided 1884-04-01

By the Court.

¶11. The court is of opinion that the instruments set forth in the first, second, fifth, and sixth counts of the indictment are deeds, under the Gen. Sts. c. 162, §§ 1, 2, and are properly described as such.

¶22. The court is also of opinion that the certificates set forth in the third, fourth, seventh, and eighth counts are, under the same statute, certificates in relation to a matter wherein they may be received as legal proof.

¶3Such certificates, though not evidence of the execution of the deed, are competent as legal proof of the matter therein alleged, namely, that the deeds were acknowledged.

¶4Judgment affirmed.

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