bearing dat

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bearing dat - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  BEARING DATE. These words are frequently used in conveyancing and in 
  pleading; as, for example, a certain indenture bearing date the first day of 
  January, 1851, which signifies not that the indenture was made on that day, 
  but simply that such date has been put to it. 
       2. When in a declaration the plaintiff alleges that the defendant made 
  his promissory note on such a day, he will not be considered as having 
  alleged it bore date on that day, so as to cause a variance between the 
  declaration and the note produced bearing a different date. 2 Greenl. Ev. 
  Sec. 1610; 2 Dowl. & L. 759.