"Illegality is not to be presumed; it is to be alleged and proved when it does not appear on the face of the instrument itself."
— Law

January 1, 1970

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Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, CJ., Lord Howden v. Simpson (1839), 10 A. & E. 821; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 103-104.