Howard v. Massengale’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “where a vendee under an unregistered deed has, without reconveying title, surrendered, cancelled or destroyed his deed, and consented that his vendor might convey the title to another person, and the same has therefore been done, such second vendee will thus obtain a good title, though in strictness the title had passed out of the vendor by the first conveyance and had never returned to him. For in such case, the deed to the second vendee being registered, the title would prima facie be in him; and this title the vendor would be estopped from denying by the deed itself, and the first vendee by his act in surrendering or cancelling his deed that the vendor might convey to another,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fair v. Curry