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Washington Law Review Volume 3 Number 3 7-1-1928 Real Estate Titles and Conveyancing, by Nelson L. North and DeWitt Van Buren (1927) F. C. Hackman Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wlr  Part of the Property Law and Real Estate Commons Recommended Citation F. C. Hackman, Book Review, Real Estate Titles and Conveyancing, by Nelson L. North and DeWitt Van Buren (1927), 3 Wash. L. Rev. 155 (1928). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wlr/vol3/iss3/6 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Reviews and Journals at UW Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington Law Review by an authorized editor of UW Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact cnyberg@uw.edu. BOOK REVIEWSBOOK REVIEWSREAL ESTATE TITEs AND C0VEYANCIxG. By Nelson L. North and DeWittVan Buren. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1927. pp. x, 719.This book comprises 318 pages of text treating of the law relating toreal estate and of business modes of effecting transactions in land, and370 pages of forms of acknowledgments and of land title instruments. Theobject of this book, as stated in the preface, is to present, "with as littletechnical phraseology as possible," simply and clearly "the origin and fun-damentals of land titles, the searching and abstracting of titles, and theforms and procedure in real estate transactions." And it is deemed usefulas a textbook for students, and helpful to "title men," dealers in realestate and lawyers. The book manifestly purports to be for general usethroughout the United States; but the exposition given of real propertylaw and the business methods of title searchers and examiners is of thoseobtaining in New York and a few other states, and not a general treatmentof the subjects, so that the value and usefulness of the book is localized.Inaccuracies occur in material subject-matters. Thus, touching "Dis-similar features" (page 117) of recording systems, it is said: "Statutes mmany states" provide for the recording of instruments within a specifiedtime after their "execution." Such a provision is in force in only a fewstates, and the date of "execution" is not uniformly the initial point ofthe period of grace. Nor is it accurate to say that where this system pre-vails more time is allowed for recording mortgages than deeds. Modernbusiness demands quick consummation of real estate transactions, andsecurity of titles, and this has brought about the repeal of acts of thecharacter referred to except in a few states. That an abstracter's liabilityis to his employer only* that at a mortgage foreqlosure sale the "successfulbidder usually pays 10 per cent of the amount of his bid, and pays thebalance at an agreed subsequent date, usually about thirty days later,"then receiving a deed; that a "special guardian" must be appointed toeffect a sale of a minor's or incompetent's real estate, are not universallegal rules.The recording offices and modes of keeping the records of land titleinstruments, the method of abstracting, examimng and reporting titles,are statements of the systems in New York. No attempt is made to outlinethe different modes of registration, and the divergent rules applicablethereto, which prevail among the states and are of importance to studentsand others.Lacking universality and accuracy in treatment of its subject-matter,this book is not a valuable addition to literature of its kind, nor can it beuseful to students, realtors, "title men," or lawyers in general.F C. HAcKmA.BOOKS RECEIVEDAnm n TRsATrw PowERs Ovn PERSONS AND PROPERTY. By,Ernst Freund.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928. pp. xxi, 620.CASES ON ADMuinsTATivE LAw. By Ernst Freund. Second Edition. St.Paul: West Publishing Co., 1928. pp. xxi, 745.CASES ON DAmAGES. By Judson A. Crane. St. Paul: West Publishing Co.,1928. pp. xiii, 508.COURT PROCEDURE IN FEDERAL TAx CASES. By Hugh C. Bickford. New York:Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1928. pp. xxxviii, 440.How TO PROVE A PitiA FAciE CASE. By Samuel Deutsch and Simon Balicer.New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1928. pp. 604.

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