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Real Property -- 1961 Tennessee Survey, Thomas G. Roady, Jr.
Real Property -- 1961 Tennessee Survey, Thomas G. Roady, Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
Probably no area of the law is fraught with more confusion than that involving construction of clauses in deeds and wills which impose some restraint on the conduct of grantees or devisees- seemingly not in the best interest of society. Clauses which tend to deter grantees or devisees from marriage or remarriage have constituted a fertile source of litigation for centuries. And though the stated rules of law prohibit and restrict the use of marriage or remarriage as a condition to vest or divest interests in real property, there are very few cases in which the courts in this country …