Burt v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The only penalty prescribed in the act is that if an assignment is not acknowledged and recorded as therein provided, it shall not be received in evidence in any court of the state. It was not within the constitutional power of the legislature, nor did it attempt, to annul the mortgage or to destroy the mortgage lien. The mortgage continues in existence and remains enforceable notwithstanding the statute; and the lien and right to enforce the same may be established by any competent proof; . . . The failure to have the assignment acknowledged and recorded effectually bars its use as evidence, but when a case can be made out or is established without such evidence a judgment of foreclosure should be given.” (p. 540.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Middlekauff v. Bell