Sharp v. Fowler

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a warranty deed passes the entire estate absent a reservation to the contrary
• holding reservations must be stated by clear language
• holding reservations must be stated by clear language
• describing as a “sound elementary principle of conveyances” that “a deed passes whatever interest a grantor has in the land, in the absence of [l]anguage showing an intention to grant a less estate”
• “To describe land is to outline its boundaries so that it may be located on The ground, and not to define the estate conveyed therein.”
• “[A] deed passes whatever interest a grantor has in the land, in the absence of [l]anguage showing an intention to grant a less estate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).