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Property Law and Real Estate

Michigan Law Review

Journal

1955

Recording

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Real Property - Recording - Sufficiency Of Description For Notice, Elliott H. Levitas Nov 1955

Real Property - Recording - Sufficiency Of Description For Notice, Elliott H. Levitas

Michigan Law Review

The grantor owned the disputed property in Scurry County, Texas, when he purported to convey to A, by quit-claim deed, properties described as "all the oil, gas and mining leases ... located anywhere within the United States, most of which are located within the states of New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas." This instrument was recorded in Scurry County. Subsequently, the grantor executed a conveyance to B covering the Scurry County interests, and B, in turn, conveyed them to C. C's search of the record did not disclose the prior conveyance to A. In …


Michigan Title Examinations And The 1954 Revenue Code's New General Lien Provisions, L. Hart Wright Jan 1955

Michigan Title Examinations And The 1954 Revenue Code's New General Lien Provisions, L. Hart Wright

Michigan Law Review

Title examiners, and more particularly their clients, have long suffered from a controversy-limited almost exclusively to Michigan- involving the methods by which the United States Treasury Department could perfect general federal tax liens. The December 1952 issue of the Michigan Law Review carried an article by the present writer pointing up the irreconcilable difference which has existed for a quarter of a century between the type of record notice which the Treasury was willing to provide prospective bona fide purchasers et al., and the quite different and more demanding type which the Michigan Legislature insisted upon if the local offices …