Legal Opinion

Gove v. Lawrence

Superior Court of New Hampshire

Decided July 15, 1853Published

Debt, on a bond, dated January 30th, 1836, in the penal sum of $1000, to be paid to the plaintiff or his assigns, and signed by the defendant and Joseph and William Bennett.

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Debt, on a bond, dated January 30th, 1836, in the penal sum of $1000, to be paid to the plaintiff or his assigns, and signed by the defendant and Joseph and William Bennett. The condition of the bond was that the obligors should make and execute a good and sufficient warrantee deed, of two-thirds of a certain lot of land, situated in Sandwich, in common form, to be by them executed and acknowledged within five years from the date of the bond, and duly delivered to the plaintiff, his heirs or assigns; provided that the plaintiff, his heirs and assigns, shall first, within five years from the…

1Opinion of the CourtEastman, J.

If the land conveyed to Towle had been-attached as the property of Lawrence, upon a valid debt-, *490existing against him at the time of,the attachment, a very different question would be presented from the one raised by this case.

That fraudulent conveyances are void as to creditors is not a matter open to argument. Towle v. Hoit, 14 N. H. Rep. 61; Carlisle v. Rich, 8 N. H. Rep. 44; 2 Kent’s Com. 442; Paul v. Crooker, 8 N. H. Rep. 290; Jackson v. Myers, 18 Johns. Rep. 425; McConihe v. Sawyer, 12 N. H. Rep. 396; Smith v. Lowell, 6 N. H. Rep. 67; Kendall v. Fitts, 2 Foster’s Rep. 1.

If the fraud be…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Kittredge v. WarrenSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1844
  2. Smith v. LowellSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1832
  3. Kittredge v. EmersonSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1844
  4. McConihe v. SawyerSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1841
  5. Page v. PageSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1836

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