Eyster v. Hatheway’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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1. “”... The statute, in declaring that the homestead right should not be claimed against a debt due for the purchase money, obviously used the language in its ordinary and popular signification. All persons understand the term purchase money to mean the price agreed to be paid for the land, or the debt created by the purchase. 'It is not understood to mean a debt due another person than the vendor. In this case, the debt was created for money loaned, and not for land purchased. Appellee sold no land to appellant, but he loaned him money. It could hot matter, in this indebtedness, whether the money was subsequently paid for the same or other property. There is nothing in the ease which shows the relation of vendor and vendee between these parties, and this provision of the statute only applies to parties occupying that relation, or those representing them, and for a debt created by the purchase of the homestead. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Vázquez y Toro v. Font