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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A deed voluntarily destroyed by the grantee is not lost, within the rule which would allow him to prove the contents by secondary evidence.
Thompson v. Thompson, 9 Ind. 32.3.
An allegation that a note has been lost is fully supported by proof that it has been destroyed by Are. Mc Gregory v. Mc Gregory, 107 Mass. 543.