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1931

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The Liability For Taxes And Assessments Between Vendor And Purchaser Jun 1931

The Liability For Taxes And Assessments Between Vendor And Purchaser

Michigan Law Review

This note is concerned with the rights and duties, inter se, of vendor and purchaser with respect to the burden of taxation. The problem presents itself in the simplest form when it arises in a suit for specific performance, the question being whether the contract obligated vendor to remove the lien of certain taxes (or allow the purchaser a credit against the purchase price), or, on the other hand, obligated purchaser to pay the whole price for the encumbered land (or pay vendor, in addition to purchase price, the amount of tax previously paid by the latter). The question …


Contracts--Risk Of Loss Under Executory Land Contract--Disposition Of Insurance Process. Feb 1931

Contracts--Risk Of Loss Under Executory Land Contract--Disposition Of Insurance Process.

Michigan Law Review

When buildings, which are part of the subject matter of an executory contract for the sale of land, are accidentally destroyed by fire, there immediately arises the question of who, as between the vendor and the purchase, shall bear the loss. The majority of courts in this country place it on the purchaser. This was the result reached in the leading English case of Paine v. Meller and has been adopted in the following states: California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and West Virginia. …


Deeds-Side Of Lake As Boundary-Presumption That Grantee Takes To Center Feb 1931

Deeds-Side Of Lake As Boundary-Presumption That Grantee Takes To Center

Michigan Law Review

ln a conveyance of land adjoining a lake, the description read in part, "thence running northerly * * * to the Rockland Lake thence westwardly along the south side of the Rockland Lake." Held, that the grantee took to the center of the lake. White v. Knickerbocker Ice Co. et al. (N. Y. 1930) 172 N.E. 452.