State v. . Logan
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INdictment under § 1089, The Code, tried at the January Term, 1888, of the Inferior Court of BüNCOMbe County, and affirmed, upon appeal, by MacRae, J., at March Term, 1888, of Buncombe Superior Court.
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INdictment under § 1089, The Code, tried at the January Term, 1888, of the Inferior Court of BüNCOMbe County, and affirmed, upon appeal, by MacRae, J., at March Term, 1888, of Buncombe Superior Court. The defendant is indicted for a violation of the statute (The Code, § 1089). It is charged in the indictment, that he purchased from James A. Revis, mortgagor, five hundred pounds of tobacco embraced by a chattel mortgage, executed by the latter to T. S. Morrison, to secure a debt therein specified; t]iat he so purchased the tobacco with a knowledge of the lien created upon it, and with' a view…
1Opinion of the Court
MerriMON, J.,
(after stating the facts). The purpose of the description of property in a deed, or other instrument of conveyance, is to designate and point out the particular property intended to be conveyed as distinct from other property, and particularly from other property of the same and like kind, so that it may be identified, when need be, bjr proper evidence. It is essential that the deed itself shall, in terms or effect, so designate the property intended to be embraced by it, else it will be void for uncertainty as a conveyance, although in some cases it might be sufficient as an…
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