Sanford v. Bulkley
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill for a foreclosure. Tried before Park, J. William 0. Sanford, on the 1st day of January, 1858, mortgaged the premises, then owned by him in fee, to a large number of his creditors, to secure their several claims against him.
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Bill for a foreclosure. Tried before Park, J. William 0. Sanford, on the 1st day of January, 1858, mortgaged the premises, then owned by him in fee, to a large number of his creditors, to secure their several claims against him. Being indebted to sundry other persons and not having property enough to pay or secure them in full, he shortly after made an arrangement with these latter creditors under which he was to convey to them all his property, including his interest in the mortgaged premises, and to procure from his mother, the present petitioner, a conveyance to them of certain property…
1Opinion of the Court
Bütleíi, J.
We can not advise a new trial in this casé; The statute requires that every deed of houses and lands shall be acknowledged by the grantor to be his free act and deed before one of certain specified officers, and the construction given it by this court requires that the officer should make a certificate in writing on the deed, to be recorded with it, that such acknowledgment has been made before him. No particular form of certificate is necessary. It is sufficient if the fair import of it is that the grantor appeared in person before the officer and acknowledged that the instrument…
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