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Future Interests - Restraints On Alienation - Option To Repurchase At A Fixed Price, Edward H. Hoenicke S.Ed. Dec 1955

Future Interests - Restraints On Alienation - Option To Repurchase At A Fixed Price, Edward H. Hoenicke S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Shortly after his second marriage in 1925, plaintiff deeded a house and two lots to the parents of his first wife. The grantees, along with the plaintiff, had occupied the premises since the first wife's death. The deed contained a provision that "if the second parties do not wish at any time to use the property as a home, the first parties shall have the first privilege to purchase the above described property at any future time at the price stated in this deed, viz., $4,000." In 1952, after the death of both grantees and when the property was worth …


Contracts (Herein Of Agency) -- 1955 Tennessee Survey, Merton L. Ferson Aug 1955

Contracts (Herein Of Agency) -- 1955 Tennessee Survey, Merton L. Ferson

Vanderbilt Law Review

Offer and Acceptance: Listing Property for Sale With Broker: In Jenkins v. Vaughan' the facts were these: Vaughan had a drug store for sale. He gave Jenkins, a broker, an exclusive listing for 90 days and promised to pay Jenkins a commission if the property were sold within that time "either through you or any other reason." This listing was made October 10, 1951. On December 10, 1951, Vaughan directed an employee of Jenkins to cancel the listing. And on December 28 Vaughan sold the store to a purchaser procured by another broker. Jenkins had not spent any appreciable time …


Real Property--Contract To Purchase--Husband And Wife, C. B. F. May 1955

Real Property--Contract To Purchase--Husband And Wife, C. B. F.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Wills - Revocation By Change In Circumstances - Effect Of A Separation And Property Settlement Agreement, Paul R. Haerle May 1955

Wills - Revocation By Change In Circumstances - Effect Of A Separation And Property Settlement Agreement, Paul R. Haerle

Michigan Law Review

Testator's will, executed in 1944, named his wife executrix and sole devisee. One month before his death in 1952 he entered into a detailed separation and property settlement agreement with her in which, though not referring directly to the will, the wife released any present, future or after-acquired interest in the same realty as was devised in the will. The widow's offering of the will for probate was contested by the heirs. The lower court directed a verdict for the contestants on the ground that the agreement operated to revoke the will. On appeal, held, reversed. Since neither a …


Devolution Of Rights Under An Unexercised Option To Purchase Land, Eugene C. Roemele Iii Jan 1955

Devolution Of Rights Under An Unexercised Option To Purchase Land, Eugene C. Roemele Iii

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Quasi-Contract - Materialman's Lien For Unrequested Expenditures In The Preservation Of Another's Property, William R. Jentes Jan 1955

Quasi-Contract - Materialman's Lien For Unrequested Expenditures In The Preservation Of Another's Property, William R. Jentes

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiffs were employed to make improvements on defendant's building. While the work was in progress the roof was partially destroyed by £ire through no fault of plaintiffs. Necessary repairs were made without the express consent of the defendant, who was in Europe and who had left no one in charge of the building to act for him. The trial court entered judgment foreclosing a materialman's lien given by statute to "any person who shall, under oral or written contract with the owner of any tract or piece of land, perform labor or furnish material for the . . . repair …


Property Rights In Professional Service Contracts, David B. Sebree Jr. Jan 1955

Property Rights In Professional Service Contracts, David B. Sebree Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.