Brunner v. Isom

Citations

• 33 Ohio C.C. Dec. 415
• 21 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 543

Syllabus

<p>HUSBAND AND WIFE — RECORD</p> <p>1. Covenant to Stand Seized Creates no Legal Estate in Ohio.</p> <p>The statute of uses is not in force in Ohio and an antenuptial agreement to stand seized of certain property creates no legal estate therein.</p> <p>2. Recording of a Nonrecordable Instrument not Notice.</p> <p>When tile statutes of the state only provided for the recording of instruments by which “lands, tenements or hereditaments are conveyed or otherwise affected or incumbered in law,” placing an antenuptial covenant to stand seized upon record in the recorder’s office will not act as notice to purchasers for value.</p>