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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 …