Kessler v. Raines’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gulf Production Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Gulf Production Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · W. C. Belcher Land Mortgage Co. v. Taylor · Gulf Production Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Citizens Committee to Recall Rizzo v. Board of Elections
Most-quoted passages
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“[Decisions concerning acknowledgments do not necessarily govern the validity of affidavits, in view of cases holding that an attorney of record is not disqualified as a notary to take his client’s affidavit. These cases rest on the ground that the act of administering an oath is ministerial, as distinguished from the quasi-judicial act of taking an acknowledgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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