Thorndike v. Richards
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This was a writ of entry brought to recover a tract of land in Camden, and was tried upon the general issue. The demandant offered in evidence a copy of a deed from John Molineaux, clerk of the proprietary, known by the name of the Twenty Associates, to William Molineaux, dated September 14,1790, which is to be found in the case, Thorndike v. Barrett, ‘ 3 Greenl. 380; and a deed to him from the administratrix of William Molineaux, conveying the tract described in the writ.
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This was a writ of entry brought to recover a tract of land in Camden, and was tried upon the general issue. The demandant offered in evidence a copy of a deed from John Molineaux, clerk of the proprietary, known by the name of the Twenty Associates, to William Molineaux, dated September 14,1790, which is to be found in the case, Thorndike v. Barrett, ‘ 3 Greenl. 380; and a deed to him from the administratrix of William Molineaux, conveying the tract described in the writ. The whole of the descriptive part of the deed from the proprietors to Molineaux is given in the opinion of the Court in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was drawn up and delivered at a subsequent term, by
Weston C. J.—
The validity of the deed by the Twenty Associates, by their clerk, approved by their standing committee, of the fourteenth of September, 1790, to William Molineaux, was before this Court, in the case of Thorndike v. Barrett, 3 Greenl. 380. It was there contended, that there was no vote of the propriety, conveying the land to Molineaux, and that if they authorised any person or persons, to sell and convey their lands for them, that power was to be exercised, by making a deed, conforming to the settled…
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