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Property Law and Real Estate

University of Michigan Law School

Journal

1940

Conveyances

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Deeds - Exceptions And Reservations - Use Of Extrinsic Evidence To Interpret Uncertain Exceptions - Exception To Grant Described In Document To Be Drawn, Michigan Law Review Dec 1940

Deeds - Exceptions And Reservations - Use Of Extrinsic Evidence To Interpret Uncertain Exceptions - Exception To Grant Described In Document To Be Drawn, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

In anticipation of becoming the owner of a tract of land, S agreed to convey to a water company that portion of the land which the company would require for its reservoir. On acquiring the land, S conveyed the tract to F "except about 25/100 acres on the westerly side to be deeded to the Centralia Water Works Co." Ten days later, S conveyed to the water company "all that part . . . that is now or shall hereafter be, covered by water in the reservoir of said . . . company to high water mark in flood time …


Landlord And Tenant - Necessity For Consideration For Lease, James A. Lee Dec 1940

Landlord And Tenant - Necessity For Consideration For Lease, James A. Lee

Michigan Law Review

In an action to cancel a five-year lease, it appeared that the lessee had agreed to pay as rent an amount equal to one cent a gallon on each gallon of gasoline delivered, by it, on the leased premises. Held, that the lease was valid, as it created a bilateral contract supported by consideration on both sides, since according to the court's construction of the lease the lessee had impliedly promised to use the premises as an automobile filling and service station for the stipulated period and so would necessarily be required to deliver gasoline there. Jackson v. Pepper …