 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1829 - 956 pages
...of the lot, j,iJj,|!^clt80n "' or other certain designation, the quantity be mentioned in addition, without any express covenant that the land contains that quantity, the whole is considered as mere description, and the quantity being the least certain part, must yield to boundaries,... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Common law - 1835 - 632 pages
...of land, do not amount to a covctiii qu'ami nant, but are merely descriptive of the land convejed. In a ')'• conveyance of land by deed in which the...certainly bounded, it is very immaterial whether any, and what quantity, is expressed, for the description by the boundaries is conclusive. And when the... | |
 | Edward Burtenshaw Sugden - Vendors and purchasers - 1836 - 736 pages
...Des. 573. Jones' Dev. v. Carter, 4 Hen. & Munf. 184. Hull v. Cunningham's Exr. 1 Munf. 330, 335, 336. "In a conveyance of land by deed, in which the land...the whole must be considered as mere description. (Per Parsons, CJ 6 Mass. 155 ; SP in Large v. Penn, 6 S. & R. 488.) In the latter case cited in which... | |
 | Esek Cowen, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1837 - 826 pages
...bounds, or that description, will pass, whether it be more or less than the quantity slated in the deed. And when the quantity is mentioned, in addition to a description of the boundaries, or other certain designation of the land, without an express covenant that it contains that quantity,... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, Return Jonathan Meigs - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 720 pages
...mferior and less general direction. In a coaveyance of land by deed, in which the land is certaiuly bounded, it is very immaterial whether any, or what quantity, is expressed, for the description by boundaries is conclnsive. And when the quantity is mentioned in addition to a description of the boundary,... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, James Albert Strobhart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 672 pages
...the granted premises against all persons. CJ Parsons, delivering the judgment of the Court, says, " in a conveyance of land, by deed, in which the land...contains that quantity, the whole must be considered as a mere description." In the case before us, the land is as definitely described by boundaries, as was... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 706 pages
...bounds or that description will pass, whether it be more or less than the quantity stated in the deed. And when the quantity is mentioned, in addition to a description of the boundaries or other certain designation of the land, without an express covenant that it •contains that quantity,... | |
 | Henry Jacob Labatt - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 486 pages
...happen in case of a clear mistake that an inferior means of location will control a higher. Ib. 18. When the quantity is mentioned in addition to a description of the boundaries or other certain designations of the laud, without an express covenant that it contains that quantity,... | |
 | Theron Metcalf, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins - Law reports, digests, etc - 1863 - 874 pages
...Jackson v. Root, 18 JohuB. 60. Vide Jackson v. Loomis, 18 ib. 81. Jackson v. Ransom, ib. 107. 514. Where the quantity is mentioned, in addition to a description of the boundaries of land, in a deed without any express covenant that the land contains that quantity, the whole must... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 468 pages
...therefore be considered as relying on the boundaries described, and not on the contents mentioned. In a conveyance of land by deed, in which the land...quantity is mentioned in addition to a description of tin: boundaries, without any express covenant that the land contains that quantity, the whole must... | |
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And when the quantity is mentioned in addition to a description of the boundaries, without any express covenant that the land contains that quantity, the whole must be considered as mere description... 
