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Property, Real, Henry S. Barnes
Property, Real, Henry S. Barnes
Mercer Law Review
A goodly number of cases involving some phase of real property law reached the appellate courts during the year, however, the great majority turned on a question of pleading or practice rather than of real property law. Since a detailed analysis and discussion of all the cases will not be possible, only those decisions which indicate the establishment of new, or the growth, extension, or clarification of existing, principles will be mentioned.
Williams v. Thomas County is in line with the modern doctrine that any present interest in land is alienable. A possibility of reverter or a right .of entry …
Landlord And Tenant, Henry S. Barnes
Landlord And Tenant, Henry S. Barnes
Mercer Law Review
Despite the fact that during the year under consideration the courts have had to deal with run-of-the-mine cases, several interesting problems have been considered. It is the purpose of this article to discuss very briefly those cases which indicate the trend of the law in this field.
Where a vendor conveys land to a purchaser who intends to use the premises for a known purpose and, at the same time, orally agrees not to use adjoining retained land for the same purpose, he creates a restriction on the use of the retained land that equity will enforce against him. or …