Elston v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
July 1986
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
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“In other words, it was a lien upon this land, and the debtor could not divest this lien by subsequently using and occupying it for this purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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