Donnelly v. Tregaskis’s Empirical Analysis

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9 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

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1. “A description of the premises is required by the Code as an essential to a valid declaration of homestead. * * * Jones v. Gunn, 149 Cal. 687, 87 P. 578. A description of the premises necessarily means such description as will serve to identify the property. To uphold homesteads, which are favored by the law, great liberality in this respect will be allowed; but the rule nevertheless obtains in full force that the description must be sufficient, so that the property may be identified in some legitimate manner.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Esten v. Cheek

2. “Although the parties to a deed may describe the property therein conveyed, by a reference therein to another deed or map which contains a description yet the deed and the instrument referred to when taken together, must be as certain in respect to the description, as a description contained in the deed itself.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 61 Cal. App. 423 - Redemeyer v. Cunningham