Case ID: f-cas_29/html/0081-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case Wo. 17,101.
    WALLACE v. LAWRENCE.
    [1 Wash. C. C. 503.] 
    
    Circuit Court, D. Pennsylvania.
    Oct. Term, 1806.
    Sheriff’s Deed — Recording—Ejectment.
    The title under a sheriff’s deed, although the deed was not recorded until after ejectment brought, is good; because, although such deeds do not convey a .title until recorded, yet the title relates back to the time when the deed was made.
    [Cited in Farlin v. Sook. 30 Kan. 403. 1 Pae. 124.]
    The lessor of the plaintiff claimed under a deed from the sheriff, who sold the land in question to him, as the highest bidder, under a levari facias. The deed was executed before the ejectment was brought, but was recorded some time after.
    Mr. Lewis, for defendant,
    stated, that these deeds were not considered as conveying a title, till they are recorded.
    Mr. Binney, for plaintiff.
    
      
       [Originally published from the MSS. of Hon. Bushrod Washington. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, under the supervision of Richard Peters, Jr., Esq.]
    
   BY THE COURT.

If this doctrine be as stated, still the title is good, by relation to the time when the deed was made.

Verdict for plaintiff.