Ullius v. Ullius’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “A failure to repay money as agreed, standing alone, is not a sufficient reason for equity to intervene to decree an equitable lien. [[Image here]] In order to create an equitable lien by agreement, it is essential that the property or fund sought to be charged be distinctly appropriated to or as security for the payment of the debt or other liability in question. A mere expectation, or even an agreement, that a debt ■will be paid out of a particular fund, a mere promise by a debtor to pay a debt out of a particular fund due him, as soon as he receives it, and a promise to pay a certain debt out of the proceeds of the sale of certain property have been held, respectively, not to be a sufficient appropriation to create a lien thereon.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
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