Hunt v. Liles’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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1. “The right of the debtor to redeem, is not an equity of redemption, in the sense of the law of mortgage. It is not an estate or interest in the land. The whole estate is vested in the purchaser by the sale. The right of the debtor is strictly a right to re-purchase, by payment or tender of the money within the prescribed time. If the money be paid or tendered within the time, the debtor has a right to re-conveyance of the land; and the purchaser is bound to make such re-conveyance. If the money be not paid or tendered, the right of the debtor is at an end and lost. The estate of the purchaser is absolute and indefeasible, and the debtor has no interest in it, or right with regard to it. So far as the debtor is concerned, the law is, after the lapse of two years, without offer to redeem, absolutely and exclusively the property of the purchaser, in as ample a manner as it is possible for the law to bestow and vest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Swift v. Kirby