Fye v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
April 1986
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Connie's Construction Co. v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“[A] purchaser of mortgaged land who buys it subject to the mortgage does not incur a personal obligation to the mortga-geee to pay the mortgage without additional language showing an assumption of the debt or a covenant to pay it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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