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But in such things ex multitudine signorum colligitur 

 identitas vera, therefore though my box were sealed, and 

 although the arras had the story of the nativity, and not of 

 the passion, if I had no other box, nor no other suit, the 

 gifts are good ; and there is certainty sufficient, for the law 

 doth not expect a precise description of such things as have 

 no certain denomination. 



Secondly, Of such things as do admit the distinction of 

 name and addition, but the notes fall out to be of equal 

 dignity all of name or addition. 



Asprata meajuxta communem fosftam in D. whereof the 

 one is true, the other false ; or tenementum meum in tenura 

 Guilielmi quod perquisivi de R. C. in predict indent spe- 

 cijicat , whereof one is true, and two are false ; or two are 

 true, and one false. 



So ad curiam quam tenebat die Mercurii tertio die Martii, 

 whereof the one is true, the other false. 



In these cases the former rule, ex multitudine signorum, 

 &c. holdeth not; neither is the placing of the falsity or 

 verity first or last material, but all must be true, or else the Vide livers 

 o-rarit is void ; always understood, that if you can reconcile ava ; nt dlt P ur 



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all the words, and make no ialsity, that is quite out ot this 

 rule, which hath place only where there is a direct con 

 trariety or falsity not to be reconciled to this rule. 



As if I grant all my land in D. in tenura I. S. which I 

 purchased of I. N. specified in a devise to I. D. and I have 

 land in D. whereof in part of them all these circumstances 

 are true, but I have other lands in D. wherein some of them 

 fail, this grant will not pass all my land in D. for there 

 these are references, and no words of falsity or error, but of 

 limitation and restraint. 



