11 R.I. 476
Decided March 3, 1877
Supreme Court of Rhode Island · decided 1877-03-03
<p>In Rhode Island a mortgage of personal property to be subsequently acquired conveys no title to such property when acquired, which is valid at law against the mortgagor or his voluntary assignee, unless after acquisition possession of such property is given to the mortgagee, or taken by him under the mortgage.</p>
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Decided 1877-03-03
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1957
1 district · 11 state decisions
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¶1While I cannot concur in all the statements of law in the opinion of the majority of the court, I concur in the result.
¶2So long as we maintain the system of forms of actions which we have inherited from England, and by which justice is so often sacrificed to mere technicalities, we must hold that an action of trover cannot be sustained in a case like the present.
¶3Judgment for the defendant for his costs.