Legal Opinion
Carpender v. New Brunswick
New Jersey Court of Chancery
Decided August 30, 1944No. Docket 149/718PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
It is no less the exaction of reason and equity, than of the settled law, that courts require the violation of a condition which involves a forfeiture to be clearly established.
By a bargain and sale deed dated July 20th, 1939, the complainants for a nominal consideration of $1 conveyed to the defendant a parcel of land approximately fifty feet in width and extending 2,500 feet along the easterly side of Burnet Street, in the City of New Brunswick, from a point about opposite the premises of the New Jersey College for Women easterly to the traffic circle at the intersection of Burnet Street…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Holland v. ChallenSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- MacKenzie v. Trustees of the PresbyterySupreme Court of New Jersey · 1905
- Lake Superior Ship Canal, Railway & Iron Co. v. CunninghamSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- United States v. Tennessee & Coosa RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Board of Education v. BrophyNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1919
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3Cited by7 opinions
- The Riverton Country Club v. ThomasNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1948
- Feldman v. Urban Commercial, Inc.New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1960
- Hagaman v. Bd. of Ed. of Tp. of WoodbridgeNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1971
- Johnson v. City of HackensackNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1985
- The Trenton Potteries Co. v. BlackwellNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1945
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