Maryland Aviation Administration v. Newsome

How courts have described this case

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• an undelivered deed cannot transfer legal title, even to a bona fide purchaser, because lack of delivery renders the deed void
• because deed purporting to transfer title was “void, not simply voidable,” given that grantor “had no power” to convey because he never “acquired any title,” it was “immaterial” whether a subsequent purchaser was bona fide
• because deed purporting to transfer title was “void, not simply voidable,” given that grantor “had no power” to convey because he never “acquired any title,” .it was “immaterial” whether a subsequent purchaser was bona fide

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