Collins v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Cole · 432 So. 2d 1047 - Sabine Production Co. v. Guaranty Bank & Trust · Webb v. Pioneer Bank & Trust Co. · Walker Resources, Inc. v. Jif's Petroleum Services, Inc. · 541 So. 2d 307 - Smith v. Cole
Most-quoted passages
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“| fiEven if [the notary] did not know that the signatures on the contract were forgeries, he knew that by authenticating the document, as notary, he was telling the world that the parties had appeared before him and affixed their signatures in his presence. Thus, he committed fraud in that he purposely let third parties rely on a document purporting to be genuine but actually without validity as an authentic act. The ‘proof of validity he supplied was misleading to all who relied on the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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