South Carolina Tax Commission v. Belk

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• indicating the party seeking bona fide purchaser status must acquire the title, or best right to it, and pay the purchase price \before notice of outstanding [e]ncumbrances or equities\
• refusal to grant priority to wife as a junior judgment creditor over a prior recorded judgment creditor not a party to divorce settlement
• party may not be a bona fide purchaser where “sufficient record notice is available to charge the purchaser with a duty to inquire which, if pursued with due diligence would have supplied him with knowledge of the rights of other parties.”
• claim of bona fide purchaser for value will be defeated when “sufficient record notice is available to charge the purchaser with a duty to inquire which, if pursued with due diligence would have supplied him with knowledge of the rights of other parties”

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