Supreme Court of South Carolina November 15, 1822 (Turnipseed v. Freeman)

Mr. Justice Huger

delivered the opinion of the court:

The act of 1803, requires that the person applying to produce an office copy of a grant in evidence, shall swear that the original grant is lost, destroyed, or out of his power to produce, and that he has not destroyed, mislaid, or In any way willingly, previous to that time, put it out of his power to produce the same, with an intention to