Bouldin v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

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49 state decisions

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1. “The law, in the absence of proof, presumes that all jurisdictional facts existed. If notice was a jurisdictional fact, the defendant relying upon the judgment was not called upon to establish such notice, nor to show the order of sale to have been entered at such a time as to make notice possible; but the burden was upon plaintiffs to establish the fact that notice was not given. We therefore conclude that the probate proceedings, aided by the legal presumptions above discussed, were not void, but were sufficient to pass the title of plaintiffs to the purchaser at the guardian's sale.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Moore v. Hanscom

2. ““We have seen that the deed in question vested in the grantees a fee-simple estate. Unlimited power of alienation in the holder to the extent of his capacity to convey under the law is a necessary incident to a vested estate in fee simple. . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gray v. Vandver