55 Md. App. 619 - King v. Bankerd’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Shields v. Shields · J. F. Johnson Lumber Co. v. Magruder · 49 Cal. App. 2d 479 - Bertelsen v. Bertelson · Adams' Express Co. v. Trego · 348 So. 2d 570 - Johnson v. Fraccacreta
Most-quoted passages
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“KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, Howard R. Bankerd, hereby make, constitute and appoint ARTHUR V. KING, my attorney for me, and in my name to convey, grant, bargain and/or sell the property designated in the Montgomery County land record as Lot 9 of an unrecorded subdivision as recorded in Liber 3027 at folio 293, situated at 14026 Travilah Road, Rockville, Maryland on such terms as to him may seem best, and in my name, to make, execute, acknowledge and deliver, good and sufficient deeds and conveyances for the same with or without covenants and warranties and generally to do and perform all things necessary pertaining to the future transfer of said property, and generally to do everything whatsoever necessary pertaining to the said property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. King v. Bankerd“cannot be resorted to in order to justify acts which the principal could not be presumed to intend, or which would defeat and not promote the apparent end ..or purpose for which the power was given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.