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8059.More information
Markedly different in content and difficult to categorise juridically, notarised declarations were issued in large quantities by the notaries of Aix-en-Provence in the last third of the sixteenth century. This change in notarial practice doubtless resulted from the preeminence of written proof over the testimony of witnesses, established by the ordonnance of Moulins of 1566. It shows that, besides notarised documents, private oral agreements were still quite common in the sixteenth century. Often contradicting a notarial act (which it modified 40 % of the time), a declaration provided a means of settling disputes and thus resembled a private agreement or accord ; but it also had much in common with an acknowledgment or evidentiary declaration. It was a cautionary act, especially when credit was involved. Among other practices, it reveals the frequent use of «borrowed names » , which at least in the sixteenth century were associated neither with fraud nor even with dissimulation.
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