Dunn v. Ketchum

Citations

• 38 Cal. 93
• 1869 Cal. LEXIS 119

Syllabus

<p>State Land—Purchase of.—Under the Act of April 27, 1863, no title to the land, and no right of possession or of purchase, inchoate or otherwise, attaches from any proceedings taken, until a certificate of the oath, prescribed by the twenty-eighth section of the statute, is indorsed on the description of the land, and filed in the office of the County Recorder.</p> <p>Oath—Before what Officers to be Taken.—When a statute does not designate the particular officer by whom a required oath may be administered and certified, it may be taken before any officer having general authority to administer and certify oaths.</p>