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Due Care In Drafting Real Property Descriptions, Dean T. Lemley
Due Care In Drafting Real Property Descriptions, Dean T. Lemley
Cleveland State Law Review
A long, detailed description may be exasperating to the engineer, attorney, or title examiner when preparing and checking the deed, but it is not nearly so exasperating as is a long, detailed, and expensive law suit to the client. Identity of land is the sole purpose of the description, and the authorities are endless that nothing will pass by a deed except what is described in it, whatever the intentions of the parties may have been.
A Note On Racial Restrictions, William R. Kinney
A Note On Racial Restrictions, William R. Kinney
Cleveland State Law Review
In view of the holding in the Shelley case, can the grantor in a deed have recourse to the courts to enforce a stipulated penalty contained in a discriminatory racial covenant (such as payment of damages or forfeiture of title) if the enforcement of such penalty does not directly involve the constitutional rights of third persons?