Lemon v. Graham

Citations

• 131 Pa. 447
• 19 A. 48
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 1131

Syllabus

<p>[To be reported.]</p> <p>1. While the word “heirs,” or its equivalent, is necessary in a deed to vest a fee-simple estate in the grantee, an instrument not itself containing words of inheritance may create such an estate by a reference to another instrument in which the requisite words are found, the reference showing the intent of the grantor and importing the words of inheritance into the grant made by him.</p> <p>2. When the grantee in a deed in fee-simple, in the usual form, placed on the back of it an assignment, under his hand and seal, of all his right, title, interest, etc., “ in and to the within deed,” to his son, “for value received,” and then delivered it to the son, the surrounding circumstances indicating an intention to transfer the fee-simple, such informal assignment was sufficient to effect that purpose.</p>