Lamb v. Lamb’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “[Ajctual notice has been divided into two classes, (1) express and (2) implied, which is inferred from the fact that the person charged had means of knowledge which he did not use. Whatever fairly puts a person on inquiry is sufficient notice, where the means of knowledge are at hand; and if he omits to inquire, he is then chargeable with all the facts which, by a proper inquiry, he might have ascertained. This, in effect, means that notice of facts which would lead an ordinarily prudent man to make an examination which, if made, wohld disclose the existence of other facts is sufficient notice of such other facts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Garza v. Lorch