Equitable Estate
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A right or interest in land, which, not having the properties of a legal estate, but being merely a right of which courts of equity will take notice, requires the aid of such court to make it available. These estates consist of uses, trusts, and powers. They possess in some respects the qualities of legal estates in modern law; Davis v. Mason, 1 Pet. (U. S.) 508, 7 L Ed. 239 Houghton v. Hapgood, 13 Pick. (Mass.) 154; Ege v. Medlar, 82 Pa. 86; Dunscomb v. Dunscomb, 1 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 508, 7 Am. Dec. 504; 2 Vern. 536; 1 Bro. C. C. 499; Wms. R. P. 134; 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 501; 1 Washb. R. P. 130, 161. A contract for the sale of land gives the title is good against every one except a "purchaser for value without notice"; Pollock, First Book of Jurispr.
212.