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Conditional Sales—Legislation In The State Of Washington—Recent Legislation, Particularly Where Personality Is Attached To Buildings On Realty, Leslie J. Ayer

Washington Law Review

It is a well recognized principle of the common law that as between the vendor and vendee in a transaction involving property, they may by agreement fix the incidents which shall attach. The law is replete, however, with cases where a party in possession using the property creates a more or less deceptive appearance as to the ownership of the property so far as third parties are concerned. As between the vendor and a third party who has been misled, the law has taken into consideration not merely the objective incidents such as use and possession, but in addition the …