Shults v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1839
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6
cited by 6 later decisions
November 2012
most recently cited
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“[T]he acknowledgment upon its face must contain all the requisites to its validity, to have the effect of notice under the registration laws.... [T]he court will ... instruct the jury that for the purposes of this trial the acknowledgment will be considered defective and inoperative. And this being the case, the recording of the deed would not be constructive notice, under the statute.... The acknowledgment must be made before a justice of the peace, and the evidence of this must be on the deed, or connected with it. And if this acknowledgment be defective in not showing that the person who took the acknowledgment had a right to take it, the act does not appear to be official, and is not a compliance with the statute. And where a purchaser is to be charged with constructive notice from the mere registration of a deed, all the substantial requisites of the law should be complied with.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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