From Lowe v. Morris (Ga. 1853), which considers whether a writ of error issued by the Clerk of the Court should be dismissed on the grounds that it erroneously failed to include the seal of the Court. The rules of the court required clerks to include such a seal, but didn't prescribe the consequence if the rules weren't followed. The majority said that the writ remained valid:

The question is not, whether the parties to whom the writ of error was directed could be punished for not obeying it, because not in conformity with the rule; but the question is, whether the party applying for this writ of error, issued by the Clerk of this Court, shall be deprived of his constitutional right, merely because our own officer has omitted to put the seal of the Court to the writ, as directed by the ru

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