Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Arkansas
Arkansas Quit Claim Deed
I recently purchased the above stated deed from you. I am very pleased. However, I question the usage of the word ''PRESENTS'' in the top, beginning sentence. Should it not be PRESENT? Please advise-Thank you ...
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Re: Arkansas Quit Claim Deed
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Re: Arkansas Quit Claim Deed
"Presents" is correct. It's arcane English that no one uses in everyday speech.
Re: Arkansas Quit Claim Deed
I've never seen the form, but my guess is that it starts off with a phrase something like "Know all men by these presents...." or the like.
That's a more or less direct translation from legal Latin "Per has literas praesentes" or "know all men from the presented words." Though Latin is little used by lawyers and doctors any more, some of the old Latin expressions got peculiar translations, and "presents" is one of them - straight from "praesentes."
A more modern translation might be "To whom it may concern:"
Re: Arkansas Quit Claim Deed
Its fine.
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