Stanton v. Button
Supreme Court of Connecticut
'.niTS was an action of ejectment, tried at Norwich, January term 1818, before Swift, Ch. J. and Brainurd and Goddard, Js. The plaintiff claimed title by virtue of the levy of an execution, in his favour against Shapley Morgan, on the demanded premises. The defendant claimed as tenant under Seth Stoddard. To establish Stoddard’s title, the defendant offered in evidence a deed from Shapley Morgan to Stoddard, given before the levy of the plaintiff’s execution.
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'.niTS was an action of ejectment, tried at Norwich, January term 1818, before Swift, Ch. J. and Brainurd and Goddard, Js. The plaintiff claimed title by virtue of the levy of an execution, in his favour against Shapley Morgan, on the demanded premises. The defendant claimed as tenant under Seth Stoddard. To establish Stoddard’s title, the defendant offered in evidence a deed from Shapley Morgan to Stoddard, given before the levy of the plaintiff’s execution. To this deed there was a certificate, in the following words, via. t " New-London county, ss. Griswold, November 29th, 1815. Personally…
1Opinion of the Court
Swift, Ch. J.
A court cannot, by intendment or construction, fill a blank, or supply a word. They can only decide on the meaning and import of the words made use of. Here the words madfe use of can only import, that the person appearing before the justice of the peace, was the signer *529ami sealer of the deed : they do not import that lie acknowledged it, nor are they equivalent to such word. The certificate, then, cannot be made to contain an acknowledgment of the deed, without supplying the word, or supposing the. blank to he filled with the word “ acknowledged.” As this cannot be done, the…
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