De Casteele v. Cornwall

Citations

• 5 Cal. 419

Syllabus

<p>An instrument not under seal, is not the character of security which is required, by the statute to be given by Notaries Public.</p> <p>If such an instrument be consid red as a good contract at common law, yet, as it is payable to the State, and not assigned to the plaintiff, the latter has no right of action in his own name.</p>