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Hart v. Gardner

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  • 81 Miss. 650

Syllabus

<p>1. Execution Sale. Inadequacy of bid. Subsequent purchaser. Notice.,</p> <p>Mere inadequacy of bid at an execution sale of land is not notice to a vendee of the purchaser that the title was not in the defendant in execution at the time of the sale.</p> <p>2. Registry oe Deeds. Trust deed. Unrecorded deed. Constructive notice.</p> <p>The record of a deed of trust conveying land to secure a promissory note, with nothing on its face to show that the note evidenced a purchase money debt for the land, will not constitute constructive notice of an unrecorded deed by which the beneficiary acquired the land.</p> <p>3. Same.</p> <p>Under the registry laws one who at an execution sale purchases land standing in the name of the judgment debtor, acquires title to the land, although there is a prior unrecorded conveyance of which the judgment creditor has no notice.</p>

Judges: Calhoon

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