alteration of deed
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From 26 U.S. 552 - Robert Steele's Lessee v. Jesse Spencer · 1828Most cited · 21 citing opinions
Whether erasures and alterations had been made in the deed or not, was a question of fact proper to be referred to the jury; but whether the erasures and alterations were material, or not, was a question of law which ought to have been decided by the Court... The construction of deeds belongs to the province of the Court; the materiality of an alteration in a deed, is a question of construction.