If the judge’s name is found on the cover but authorship is not proved, what is the warranted conclusion?
Supplementary Practice 13: Attribution, Quotation and Evidential Restraint in Rhetorical Analysis
- An inscription on the cover is conclusive proof of attribution
- A differing seal establishes both name and letter as fictitious
- An inscription with the judge’s name makes other evidence unnecessary
- The inscription and the authorial attribution are distinct propositions