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34 ACCOUNT.
And in all cases, wherein depositions are required,
they ought to be as late, as when the
deceased debtor died.
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Accounts, being the greater number of
vouchers occurring in administrations, and the
propriety of a legal proved account, such as
will pass the commissary, not being so generally
understood, as the frequent occasion thereof
seems to require, I shall here particularize such
a one, for the guidance of those who may want
such information.
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Accounts of
several years
standing, how
to be proved. |
Every account then, in order to pass the
commissary, must consist of enumerated articles,
without the least ambiguity; lumped balances
of a former account, without the particulars,
sums of money paid on orders, without producing
such orders, nor any other charge not
clearly specified, for what the same became due,
or was paid, must be no part of such account.
The truth of the account must be proved within
twelve months after the article therein
charged becomes due, in this manner, if the
account contains dealings only for one year,
and supposing the first article charged to be
dated the 15th of April 1766, then the account
must appear to have been proved before a magistrate
within a twelvemonth from such date, |
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