Legal Term: TO BEAR DATE

Definition: In the description of a paper in a declaration, to say it bears date such a day, is to aver that such date is upon it, and if, on being produced, it is dated at another day, the variance will be fatal. But if it be averred it was made on such a day, and upon its production it bears date on another day, it will not be a variance, because it might have been made one day and dated another. 3 Burr. 904.

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