Styles of Deeds and Instruments Author:John Hendry Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in the year last before mentioned, before these witnesses,. J K (insert designation) and L M (insert designation'), (and so on, through all the parties). New ... more »Style of Testing Clause, and Form of Attestation. The Conveyancing Act contains no form of the testing clause or directions as to the attestation, but the following style of the testing clause may be adopted, viz.:— In Witness Whereof, I have subscribed these presents (if there are marginal additions add, with the marginal additions, one on each of pages and , and if there be any erasures or interlineations to be noticed, here refer to them as in the old-style, supra), the day of t in the year Eighteen hundred and The date, though not a statutory requisite, has by uniform practice been inserted in Scotch deeds, and may, as in the event of the supervening bankruptcy, or, in the case of testamentary deeds, of the alleged incapacity of the granter, be of importance, and therefore should be inserted where the new style is adopted. In England, a deed, notwithstanding that there are many parties to it who sign at different times, bears but one date ; but in Scotland, where a different practice has prevailed, it is not easy to say what might be the effect of an erroneous statement in this respect, and it is therefore recommended that where a deed is signed at different times, the date on which it was subscribed by each of the parties be specified in the testing clause. Subscription by the Parties. The rule as to signing remains unchanged, and the deed will be subscribed by the granter or granters on each page, and also at the marginal additions, if any. Form of A ttestation. In regard to the attestation where there is but one party, or where, if more than one, the parties all sign the deed at the same t...« less