Towles v. Roundtree’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. ““3,068.34 — Received this first day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-one, of Francis Roundtree the sum of three thousand and sixty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents, as being in full of all demands against the said Roundtree, against his estate, and it being my proportionable part of the same, I do hereby relinquish all my right, title, interest and claim to any further demands against the aforesaid Francis. Roundtree, his heirs and assigns, executors and ad ministrators. In Witness, whereof, I have hereunto set my hand on the day and year above written.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Corlett v. May