Delaplain v. Grubb’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 48 state decisions

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1. ““The presumption of law is that the grantor in a deed was sane and competent to execute it at the time of its execution. “Old age is not of itself sufficient evidence of incapacity to make a deed. “The evidence of an officer taking the acknowledgment to a deed, or of a person present at its execution, is entitled! to peculiar weight in considering the grantor’s capacity. “The time of the execution of a deed is the material or critical point of time to be considered upon the inquiry as to the grantor’s capacity. “A grantor, in a deed may be extremely old, his understanding, memory, and mind enfeebled and weakened by age, and his action occasionally strang-e and eccentric, and he may not be able to transact many affairs of life; yet if age.has not rendered him imbecile, so that he does not know the nature and effect of the deed, this does not invalidate the deed. If he be capable, at the time, to know the nature, character, and effect of the particular act, that is sufficient to sustain it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stump v. Sturm