Randall v. Edert’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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1. ““The law is well settled that the purchaser of an equitable title takes only such interest in the property as his grantor had at the time of his purchase. Waddel, by his certificate of purchase, only obtained the right to a patent for the land provided his acts were legal, and in all respects such as to warrant the issuance of a patent to him., His rights were in a measure dependent upon the subsequent action of the land department, within its legitimate authority, of ascertaining whether he had complied with all the prerequisites prescribed by law, and whether he was lawfully entitled to the land in question. His purchase of the land was subject to the rules and regulations of the land department. It is true that his entry was sufficient to satisfy the "register and receiver of the local land office; but it was subject to the control and supervision of the commissioner of the general land office, and the action of the register and receiver was liable to be reversed upon appeal. When appellant purchased the land, it took it subject to the final action of the land department, and to such proceedings as might thereafter be had in the courts to affirm or set aside the rulings of the officers of such department in regard thereto. It purchased the .land before the issuance of a patent. The legal title was still in the government. It therefore obtained, by its purchase, only an equitable interest in the land, and is not, for the reasons statéd, entitled to protection as a bona fide”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. California Redwood Co. v. Litle