Legal Opinion
Costa v. Sardinha
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 28, 1928PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSanderson, J.
The plaintiff owned two adjoining parcels of land known as lots one and two, and on April 23, 1924, mortgaged them to the Taunton Co-operative Bank for $3,500. On November 6, 1925, he conveyed lot numbered one to Roza De Souza Cabral, subject to the mortgage to the bank on both lots, and in the conveyance Cabral assumed and agreed to pay the mortgage. On the same date Cabral gave a mortgage on lot one to the defendant Sardinha for $543.59, subject to the prior mortgage held by the Taunton Co-operative Bank, “a breach of which shall constitute a breach of the conditions of .this mortgage…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Locke v. HomerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1881
- Furnas v. DurginMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
- Rice v. SandersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890
- Bates v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Clark v. FontainMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
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3Cited by6 opinions
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- Bloch v. BudishMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
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