Otts v. Sheffield’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The appellee’s deed having been seasonably, effectually recorded, thereby giving constructive notice of the existence of his claim of right and title to the forty acres in question (Code, see. 3373), no concluding equitable estoppel could arise from his mere failure to avow, or his silence with respect to, his claim of title at the foreclosure sale had under a mortgage executed by his grantor subsequent to the registration of appellee’s deed. Only some positive act or statement inconsistent with the right or title the deed disclosed, done or made before or at the time of (not after) the sale, or silence when conscience and the occasion, before or at the time of (not after) the sale, required him to avow his claim of title or right, and known to and acted upon by the purchaser (appellant) before he became the highest bidder at the foreclosure sale, could have operated to erect an equitable estop-pel against appellee’s superior title under his deed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Peterson v. Bergman Cabinet Manufacturing Co.