Rowley v. Bowyer’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1951
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bury v. Young · Hathaway v. . Payne · Wheelwright v. Wheelwright · Prutsman v. Baker · Cook v. Brown
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The delivery of a deed of conveyance of real estate is essential to its validity. Its delivery is a matter of intention, and the acts and declarations of the grantor are evidence of his intention. It is not delivered unless or until it is the intention of the grantor to perfect the instrument and make it presently effective as a conveyance. These elementary principles have been recognized in this court in Crawford v. Bertholf, 1 N.J. Eq. ( Sax. ) 458, 467; Woodward v. Woodward, 8 N.J. Eq. ( 4 Halst. ) 779, 784; Martling v. Martling, 47 N.J. Eq. ( 2 Dick. ) 122; Vreeland v. Vreeland, 48 N.J. Eq. ( 3 Dick. ) 56, 60; and in the supreme court in Folly v. Vantuyl, 9 N.J. Law ( 4 Halst. ) 153, 160; and in the court of errors and appeals in Ruckman v. Ruckman, 33 N.J. Eq. ( 6 Stew. ) 354, 358 , and Schlicher v. Keeler, 67 N.J. Eq. ( 1 Robb. ) 635, 639. In Ruckman v. *Page 87 Ruckman it is said: "The essence of delivery consists in the intent of the grantor to perfect the instrument, and to make it at once the absolute property of the grantee, and his acts and declarations are the evidence of such intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A deed does not become operative until it is delivered with the intent that it shall become effective as a conveyance. To constitute a good delivery it must appear from the circumstances of the transaction that it was the grantor's intention to part with the deed, and thereby put the title in the grantee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The essence of delivery consists in the intent of the grantor to perfect the instrument, and to make it at once the absolute property of the grantee, and his acts and declarations are the evidence of such intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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