Fraim v. Frederick’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The doctrine of the law, as to what constitutes a bona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration without notice is well defined and well settled in American jurisprudence. He who purchases, and actually pays,-not a part, but the whole, of the purchase money, or the valuable consideration, in good faith, without a knowledge of the vendor’s lien, is such .purchaser as the law contemplates: and he will be-protected in a court of equity. He who has simply made a contract of purchase, and has received a deed of conveyance from his vendor, but has not paid the valuable consideration, is wanting in an indispensable element in the constitution of such a purchaser. He comes not within the rule, or the legal definition, of an innocent purchaser without notice. If the. knowledge of the lien is brought to his notice before payment, and he afterwards pays the whole, or a parr, of the consideration, it is an act which the law regards as mala fide, and he forfeits the protection of a court of conscience, and cannot shield himself under its aegis. True it is, if he has paid a part of the purchase money before notice, equity will afford him relief pro tanto. But other principles of equity are applied in affording such relief.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rector v. Wildrick