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The Missouri statute providing that the use of the words, "grant, bargain and sell", in a fee simple conveyance shall be construed as imposing on the grantor certain covenants of title, is not only interesting in respect to its history, but, as it stands at present, it appears to be different in scope from any statute on the subject in any other jurisdiction. Furthermore, this statute has been construed by the Missouri Supreme Court so that the final joint product of the legislative and the judicial branches of the state is surprising.

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Table Of Contents Jun 1923

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

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Discussion Of Judge Pound's Paper, A, Charles M. Hough Jun 1923

Discussion Of Judge Pound's Paper, A, Charles M. Hough

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

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Law School Curriculum As Seen By The Bench And Bar, The, Cuthbert W. Pound Jun 1923

Law School Curriculum As Seen By The Bench And Bar, The, Cuthbert W. Pound

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

The Association of American Law Schools ask the Bench and Bar to indicate their views of the methods of legal education adopted by the schools. The request is timely. So large a proportion of the training for the profession of law has become the function of the law schools that lawyers and judges have the keenest interest and concern in the lines along which legal education is now developing. Of 643 students trying the New York State Bar examinations in June, 1922, for the first time, only nine had no law school training and of the nine three were college …

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Declarations Of Trusts And The Statute Of Uses, James L. Parks Jun 1923

Declarations Of Trusts And The Statute Of Uses, James L. Parks

University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series

In Neal v. Bryant: plaintiff brought a statutory action to determine and quiet title to a parcel of land known as the "Leazenby land". Defendant claimed title as residuary devisee under the will of plaintiff's father, Joseph Bryant. Testator had executed the will under which defendant claimed on July 9, 1915, and had acquired title to the land in suit on January 25, 1916. When testator obtained the land, he did not go into possession himself, but put plaintiff in possession, telling plaintiff and other that the land was not his but plaintiff's. At all times thereafter plaintiff was possessed …

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Discussion Of Judge Pound's Paper, A, J. P. Mcbaine Jun 1923