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Restitution -- 1954 Tennessee Survey, John W. Wade
Restitution -- 1954 Tennessee Survey, John W. Wade
Vanderbilt Law Review
The title, Restitution, is a comparatively new one. Over a period of many years there grew up separately a number of distinct legal and equitable remedies--quasi-contract, constructive trust, equitable lien, reformation, rescission and others. Only recently has it been perceived that a pervading general principle underlies all of these remedies--the principle that "a person who has been unjustly enriched at the expense of another is required to make restitution to the other." Now that these several types of relief are being classed together it is more generally realized that their composite whole involves a very broad field of the law. …
Real Property -- 1954 Tennessee Survey, Herman L. Trautman, James C. Kirby Jr.
Real Property -- 1954 Tennessee Survey, Herman L. Trautman, James C. Kirby Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
Champertous Deeds and Adverse Possession: There were two cases, Robinson v. Harris, and State v. McNabb, which used the questionable champertous deed concept to reach what seem to be just results. The sixteenth century doctrine, enacted by statute in Tennessee, is that a deed of conveyance executed and delivered by a title owner while the land is held in the adverse possession of another is void. As pointed out in the 1953 Survey article, however, recent Tennessee cases have tended to ignore a line of nationally recognized Tennessee equity cases holding that the deed is not void; that the transfer …