The word "protest" as used by judges and lawyers has two meanings: one, those acts necessary to charge a drawer or indorser;1 the other, the formal certificate drawn up by a notary or some one acting in place of a notary, which shows the demand and dishonor with the accompanying proof of notice, if any.2 The form and sufficiency of the certificate of protest is necessarily governed by the law of the place where the protest is made.3 The admissibility of the certificate in evidence is governed, however, by the law of the place of trial of the action.4 In the certificate the paper protested must be intelligibly described.5

11 See the last case cited. 12Barkalow v. Johnson, 16 N. J. Law, 397.

13 Oglesby v. Stacy, 10 La. Ann. 117.

14 Parsons v. "Dickinson, 23 Mich. 56.

15 The preceding cases treat the matter in this light

16 A mistaken admission may be corrected. Commercial Bank v. Clark, 28 Vt. 325.

1 White v. Keith, 97 Ala. 668; Ayrault v. Pacific Bank, 47 N. Y. 570.

2Townsend v. Lorain Bank, 2 Ohio St. 345.

3Neederer v. Barber, Fed. Cas. No. 10,079; Tickner v. Roberts, 11 La. 114; Carter v. Burley, 9 N. H. 558; Chew v. Read, 11 Smedes & M. 182; Dwight v. Richardson, 12-Smedes & M. 325.