Alferitz v. Ingalls’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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1. ““The general rule is that the description in a chattel mortgage need not he so specific and certain that the property might he identified hy the description alone. If the description of the personal property contained in the chattel mortgage is such as will enable third persons to identify the property, aided hy the inquiry which the .mortgage itself indicates and directs, the mortgage, when recorded, is constructive notice to all third parties.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Nat. Bank v. Cudahy Packing Co.

2. ““Written descriptions of property are to be interpreted in the light of the facts known to and in the minds of the parties at the time. They are not prepared for strangers, hut for those they are to affect — the parties and their privies. A subsequent purchaser or mortgagee is supposed to acquire a knowledge of all the faets, so far as may be needful for his protection, and he purchases in view' of that knowledge.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Nat. Bank v. Cudahy Packing Co.