Mead v. . Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions

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1. “£ ‘ In the English Court of Chancery the general rule is that in actions affecting the title to land it is sufficient to bring before the court the person entitled to the first estate of inheritance with those claiming prior interests, omitting those who might claim in remainder or reversion after such vested estate of inheritance (Calv. on Parties 48; Mitf. Pleadings 173). A decree against the person having the first estate of inheritance would bind those in remainder or reversion, although the estate might afterwards vest in possession. Indeed, it was improper to make parties thus remotely interested parties to the action, and thus put them to the trouble of litigating a matter in which they might never have any interest. It was a rule, therefore, which had been adopted, as it was said, partly from necessity and partly on considerations of convenience. (Calv., 51; 2 Spence Eq. Jur. 707; Story Eq. Pl., sec. 144).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Harris v. Randolph