Moore v. Giles
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Shit- to remove a cloud from a title; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and heard before Hoveyi >T. The court found the following facts:— On the 4th day of September, 1877, the plaintiff was the owner iu fee of the land in question, being a lot in the town of Hartford, and on the same day executed, in due form of law, a deed quitclaiming it to Martha Giles, the defendant, her heirs and assigns, and on the 6th day of October, 1877, lodged the deed for record in…
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Shit- to remove a cloud from a title; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and heard before Hoveyi >T. The court found the following facts:— On the 4th day of September, 1877, the plaintiff was the owner iu fee of the land in question, being a lot in the town of Hartford, and on the same day executed, in due form of law, a deed quitclaiming it to Martha Giles, the defendant, her heirs and assigns, and on the 6th day of October, 1877, lodged the deed for record in the office of the town clerk of Hartford, and it was duly recorded in the land records of the town. After it was…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
It is essential to the validity of a deed that it should be delivered by the grantor and accepted by the grantee; but neither the presence of the latter nor his previous authority to a third person to receive it on his behalf, nor his subsequent express assent to it, is necessary to make the delivery valid. When there is no such previous authority to receive the law presumes his assent whenever the deed is beneficial to Mm, although his dissent may be proven. Proof only that the plaintiff recorded the deed is not ■ conclusive against him. The legal effect of that act depends upon the intent…
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