Complete Purchaser

This is a term sometimes applied to the subsequent purchaser of land who, though subsequent, will, under certain circumstances, be protected as against prior purchasers where he has procured the evidence of his purchase to be recorded in accordance with the statute. In order to be a complete purchaser within the meaning of the term as thus employed, the purchaser, it appears to be uniformly held, must have paid the purchase money, not merely have given security for payment.

1 Whart. 410; 18 111. 343; 6 Bush. 192; 79 Va. _ 147.

Whether he must also have received a conveyance, not a mere agreement to convey, is a point upon which the authorities are not agreed, but the later decisions are to the effect that it is enough that he has a full right to a conveyance.