Trask v. Green’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

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1. “"Where the title before the conveyance has been vested in the debtor himself, and he has conveyed for the purpose of defrauding his creditors, the right of creditors to levy and sell rests upon the ground that, the deed being void as to creditors, the legal title, as to them, still remains in the debtor, as if no conveyance had been made. The land may therefore be sold on execution at law, without invoking the aid of a court of equity; and the purchaser may, if he chooses, 'try the question of fraud in an action at law (Cleland v. Taylor, 3 Mich. 201, and cases cited); and he may, doubtless, file his bill in a proper case, after sale, to remove the cloud created by the fraudulent conveyance. But it is generally more advantageous to all parties, and therefore more common, for the creditor to bring his bill before sale, in aid of the execution. And this may be done at any time after the creditor has obtained a lien upon the land by his judgment, when that of itself creates the lien, or only after the levy of an execution, where, as in this State, the levy is necessary to give the lien.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wolf v. O'Conner