Illustrative Cases in Realty, Del 3T. & J.W. Johnson & Company, 1895 |
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action actual possession adverse possession affirmed alleged alluvion appears applied assert assignment authority Bunn Circuit Court color of title common law complainant constitute contract controversy conveyance conveyed County Court of Equity coverture death declared decree deed defendant in error defendant's devise doctrine dower effect ejectment Eminent Domain entitled entry equitable estoppel equity escheat estopped estoppel evidence executed facts fee simple forfeiture fraud grant grantor H. C. Long heirs held Hennepin County husband incumbrance intention interest island judgment judicial jurisdiction jury land legacies legal title Legislature lien ment Minn mortgage N. W. Rep notice owner ownership parties pass payment Pendill person plaintiff in error premises Probate Court proceedings provision purchaser purpose question real estate record river rule seised seisin sheriff's sale Smith sold statute suit Supreme Court survey taxes tenant thereof tion trial Van Riswick vested void widow wife
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Side 543 - No member of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.
Side 732 - Thousand dollars in hand paid by the said party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain, and sell, unto the said party of the second part...
Side 576 - Punctuation is a most fallible standard by which to interpret a writing ; it may be resorted to when all other means fail ; but the court will first take the instrument by its four corners, in order to ascertain its true meaning ; if that is apparent on judicially inspecting the whole, the punctuation will not be suffered to change it.
Side 542 - SECTION 1. The Legislative power of this State shall be vested in a Senate and Assembly, which shall be designated the Legislature of the State of California...
Side 701 - So many and varied are the circumstances to be taken into account in determining the value of property condemned for public purposes, that it is perhaps impossible to formulate a rule to govern its appraisement in all cases. Exceptional circumstances will modify the most carefully guarded rule; but, as a general thing, we should say that the compensation to the owner is to be estimated by reference to the uses for which the property is suitable, having regard to the existing business or wants of...
Side 542 - We know of no case in which a legislative act to transfer the property of A. to B. without his consent, has ever been held a constitutional exercise of legislative power in any State in the Union. On the contrary, it has been constantly resisted as inconsistent with just principles. by every judicial tribunal in which it has been attempted to be enforced.
Side 762 - That this act shall not delay the sale of any of the public lands of the United States beyond the time which has been, or may be, appointed by the proclamation of the President, nor shall the provisions of this act be available to any person or persons who shall fail to make the proof and payment, and file the affidavit required before the day appointed for the commencement of the sales as aforesaid.
Side 639 - The principle deducible from these authorities seems to be that, whatever may be the form or nature of the conveyance used to pass real property, if the grantor sets forth on the face of the instrument, by way of recital or averment, that he is seized or possessed of a particular estate in the premises, and which estate the deed purports to convey, or, what is the same thing, if the seizin or possession of a...
Side 753 - Fractional section 7; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, the southwest quarter of northeast quarter, the southeast quarter, and the south half of the southwest quarter of...
Side 543 - State shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land, or the judgment of his peers :" Const., art. vn, § 1. The words " by the law of the land," as here used, do do not mean a statute passed for the purpose of working the wrong. That construction would render the restriction absolutely nugatory, and turn this part of the Constitution into mere nonsense.