45° writing, red thumb print, blue wax, stamps and a signature. All the hallmarks of a perfectly cast "Noticketo Nomo" spell and still it persists. Whatever could they have done wrong?
Just eyeballing it but it seems he wrote at 43°, I'm assuming the court clerk had a protractor to hand and wasn't willing to overlook that horrible faux pas
Part of me wants to do some post-modern fictional world-building around this. Like the intersection of Constantine and The Office. A world where "magic" is just really bureaucratic metaphysics, complete with the occasional stovepipe or string to pull.