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Agency -- 1960 Tennessee Survey, Warren A. Seavey
Agency -- 1960 Tennessee Survey, Warren A. Seavey
Vanderbilt Law Review
In Richardson v. Snipes' both parties to an exchange of land employed the plaintiff, the contract providing that the defendant would pay no commission unless the transfer was completed. The other party satisfied the conditions imposed by the defendant, who, however, refused to go through with the exchange. The court properly reversed judgment for the defendant; but the result should not have turned upon the finding of bad faith of the defendant, as the court held. The plaintiff had performed his undertaking which was to provide one who would exchange titles and who would have gone through with the transaction …
The Real Estate Broker's Undertaking, William E. Wallace
The Real Estate Broker's Undertaking, William E. Wallace
Vanderbilt Law Review
In earlier articles I have discussed problems dealing with the enunciation and expression of listing agreements, their formal import' and the effect of one important segment of many of the attendant" payment" clauses. The former article concerned itself with the general problem of the relationship existing between a real property owner and his broker, while the latter dealt with the significance of words by which the payment clause of a brokerage agreement was introduced and with the effect of a wrongful default by the landowner. The present article will consider the legal significance of the actual terms employed to designate …