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Conditions Subsequent In Conveyances In Missouri, Manley O. Hudson
Conditions Subsequent In Conveyances In Missouri, Manley O. Hudson
University of Missouri Bulletin Law Series
Though the learning surrounding the subject of conditions has lost some of its importance because of the infrequency with which conditions are now enforced by entry for breach, it has by no means become obsolete in the modern, law of conveyancing. Cases still arise to which the common law rules are applicable, as instanced in three recent Missouri decisions, and the strictness of those rules, due to the disfavor with which the law regards conditions, seems to justify this special study of the Missouri decisions relating to the subject.
Adverse Possession In The Case Of The Rights Of Way Of The Pacific Railroad Companies, Ralph W. Aigler
Adverse Possession In The Case Of The Rights Of Way Of The Pacific Railroad Companies, Ralph W. Aigler
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While the weight of authority is probably to the effect that railroad rights of way may be lost by adverse possession, the authorities are by no means agreed. See 12 MICH. L. REV. 144. The rights of way of certain of the Pacific Railroad Companies have been declared not to be subject to the ordinary rules as to adverse possession, on the ground that by the Congressional grants the four-hundred-foot-strips were conveyed only for railroad purposes with the ultimate possibility of reverter in the United States, which had the effect of making such lands inalienable by the railroad companies whether …
The Registration Of Land Titles, John R. Rood
The Registration Of Land Titles, John R. Rood
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It is proposed in this paper to consider some of the advantages and disadvantages of the older system of no registration, the later system of registering the instruments of conveyance, and the latest system of making the title depend entirely on a recorded adjudication that it is thus and so, which absolutely displaces all former titles, adjudicated or otherwise. It is also proposed to consider some of the reasons why the older systems persist.