Smith v. Diplock’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “No matter what the form and phraseology of the written evidence of a conveyance, if the court is satisfied that, at its inception, the agreement of transfer was as security, such conveyance, though in form a deed absolute, is in effect an equitable mortgage.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Seaman v. Seaman