Stelts v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 2015
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Creech v. Long · Merck v. Merck · Lyles v. Lyles · Bryce v. Massey · Ellis v. Sanders
Most-quoted passages
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“We are unable to agree with the Circuit Judge that a paper, in form a mortgage and lacking a witness or a seal or other formal requisite of a legal mortgage, but valid between the parties as an equitable mortgage, is barred by the statute of limitations six years after its maturity. The paper is ... a sealed instrument importing an obligation to pay money and a lien as between the obligor and obligee upon the land to secure payment. This being so ... the [action falls] under [the predecessor to code section 19-1-160,] providing a limitation of twenty years....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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