Law Library Volume 30 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...land with such a power of revocation, and after, with an intent to defraud a purchaser, make a. (45) Although they were concealed, or were secretly made, Cro. Jae. 455. (46) Consideration of blood, or of natural affection, is a gooclconsideration: but not such a good consideration as is intended by the stat. of 27 Eliz. for a valuable consideration, as' money, marriage, or the like, is the only good consideration within that act, 3 Co. 83. b. See further Vin. Abr. tit. Consideration; and Lloyd v. Spillit, 2 Atk. 148, and Stiles v. The Attorney General, ibid. 152. ' (47) Every voluntary conveyance shall primd facie be deemed fraudulent as to a purchaser, 2 Lev. l47. 1 Ca. Ch. 100, 2l7; for a conveyance with a power of revocation is in the same degree as a conveyance by fraud, Mo. 618. See further, how a power of revocation shall make a deed fraudulent, and how it must be reserved to be executed, to make it so, Com. Dig. Covin, (B. 3.) feotfment to a stranger to extinguish the power, and after sell the land for valuable consideration to a stranger, in this case both the first and the second deed, as to the purchaser, shall be said to be fraudulent, and therefore void. On such powers and the means of taking them out of the application of the statute, see Booth's opinion in the Appendixto this work.--(Co. 6. '72.) And if there be grandfather, father and son, and the grandfather makes a lease for 100 years to the father, and the father, to prevent the drowning of the lease by the descent of the reversion to him, doth assign over the lease to certain friends of his, to the use of his son an infant under pretence to pay debts, the grandfather dieth, the father doth continue the occupation of the land, and maketh estates, and...