Winston v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2004
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hodges v. Winston · Wood v. Lake · Jones v. DeGraffenreid · Griffith v. Ventress · De Vendell v. Doe ex dem. Hamilton
Most-quoted passages
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““The evidence on the question of notice is by the plaintiff, Hodges, who testified that he gave the plaintiff in execution personal notice of his purchase from James 6. Ooleman, ‘a week after, but inside of 2 weeks,’ from the date of his deed from Ooleman. The judgment was rendered three days subsequent to the execution of the deed, and ‘inside of 2 weeks’ is less than 20 days. Section 1810 of the Code declares that ‘conveyances of unconditional estates * * * are void as to purchasers for a valuable consideration, mortgagees and judgment creditors, having- no notice thereof, unless recorded within 30 days from their date.’ The judgment was rendered before notice, but within less time than 30 days. It is argued that the purpose of registration is to give notice, and actual notice is always at least the equivalent of constructive notice by registration. The conclusion deduced therefrom is that, as registration of the conveyance within 30 days from its date under the statute would render it superior to any rights of ■purchasers, mortgagees, and judgment creditors acquired at any time during the 30 days before registration, so personal notice given at any time during the 30 days allowed for registration would relate back and have the same effect as registration. We do not think the statute, in terms' or in spirit, admits of this construction. If John G. Winston & Co., on the 23d day of February, instead of obtaining a judgment, had purchased the land from James G. Coleman, and pa”
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