Ellis v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 1 state decisions

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1. ““But the counsel does not notice the distinction between executed and executory contracts. If a contract was executed and the property passed on a Sunday the sale would be valid. Between parties to fraud the law renders no aid to either. The title, though by a fraudulent deed, passed from the tenant to the demandant. The statute does not declare it to be void. If it had been a contract to convey, it could not have been enforced. It was an actual conveyance. It passed the title without any aid from the courts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Starr v. Lowery