Tozier v. Tozier

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 father’s gift of land to his son was enforceable because the son, in reliance on the gift, had moved to the land and built a house on it
• discussing the doctrine of part performance as operating on one of two theories: unequivocal referability or equitable fraud
• describing an FED action as a “summary proceeding” that performs a “limited function”
• promisee made substantial improvements to land in reliance on promise that the land would be conveyed to him
• promisee made substantial improvements to land in reliance on promise that the land would be conveyed to him
• donee built house and outbuildings on lot

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).