Pickens v. Knisely

I fully concur with President Johnson, that the certificate of a justice of the privy examination and acknowledgment of a married woman of a deed conveying her land is in the nature of a judicial act, and that she cannot by parol evidence contradict the facts set out in the certificate of the justice so as to avoid the effect of such deed, when it has been executed by her and duly recorded with the appended certificate in due form, unless she first establish by satisfactory parol evidence, that with the concurrence of those claiming the land under her deed she had been defrauded or imposed…