Perry v. Price

It is contended by Price’s cousel, that the authority in Shepherd’s Touchstone, 57,. has been misunderstood. The words of the author are, that a corporation may seal a deed by any other seal than their common seal, and the deed is never the worse. We understand this rule to mean, that when any seal is used, it must still be proved to have been adopted by the corporation. If the common seal is used, it must be proved by a corporate act to be the common seal; if another than the common seal is used, it must first be proved that the corporation in council agreed and ordered such seal to be used…