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14 N.C. 389

Whitaker v. . Cawthorne

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided December 5, 1832

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1832-12-05

Trespass qjjare ceausum eregtt, and upon not guilty pleaded, on the trial before DaNIEE, Judge, at Warren, on the last Spring Circuit, the case was, that one Robert Ransom, in the year 1826, bought the premises in dispute of one Robert R. Johnson, from whom, he received an absolute deed, and to whom he gave the following memorandum, which was without a seal: “I “ Robert.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently May 2017

2 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“[t]he word land legally includeth all castles, houses and other buildings, so as passing the land or ground, the structure or building thereupon passeth therewith[,]”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Binkley v. Binkley

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1832-12-05

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*390 Daniel, Judge,

¶1 after stating the case, proceeded: The word “ land, legally includeth all castles, houses and other buildings, so as passing the land or ground, the structure or building thereupon passeth therewith.” (1 Thomas’ Coke. 197.) “ If a man grant all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines of metal, and other fossils, his woods, liis waters,- and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows.” (2 Bl. Com. 18.) The word “land,” includes not only the face of the earth, but every thing under it or over it. The stable was fixed to the land, and was in law a part of it. It could not be, nor was it severed by the unsealed writing which Ransom gave to Johnson. It remained as part of the land, and passed under the deed to James Ransom, and again it passed with the land, by the deed to the plaintiff. The written license given by Ransom, might have excused a trespass committed in entering and taking the stable, whilst he was the owner of the premises. It did not operate as a conveyance of the stable; for the stable being a part of the realty, could not pass, except by such a conveyance as would pass the land. A license to commit a trespass, is a very different thing from a conveyance which will pass the land, or any of its appurtenances. When Ransom sold the land, the stable passed, and the license to enter was revoked, it was not incorporated in the deed to Ransom, and it was therefore, as to his bargainee, a nullity.

¶2 Per Curiam. — Judgment afeiemed:

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