Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-04-30
What 4 Deed CONVEYS.

The following extracts from an adj
dress delivered before the Massachu-
sctts State Board of Agriculture, by
Hon. E. Fl. Bennett, will be of interest
to our landowners:
Of course every one knows it con-
veys the fence on the farm, but all
might not think it also included the
fencing stuff, posts, rails, etc., which
had once been used in the fence, but
had been taken down and piled up
for future use again in the same place.
But new fence material, just bought
and never attached to the soil, will
not pass Standing trees also pass as
part of the land; so do trees blown
and cut down, and still left in the
woods where they fell, but not if cut
and corded up for sale; the wood has
then become personal property. If
there be any manure in the barnyard,
or in a compost heap in the field,
ready for immediate use, the buyer
ordinarily takes that also as belonging
to the farm, though it might not be
SO, if the owner had previously sold
it to some other party and had col
lected it together in heap by itself.
Growing crops also pass by the deed of
a farm, unless they are expressly re-
served, and when it is intended to re-
serve those it should be so stated in the
deed itself; mere oral agreement
to that effect would not be valid in law.
Another mode is to stipulate that pos
session is not to be given until some
future day, in which case the crops or
manure may be removed before that
time. As to the buildings Oh the farm,
though generally mentioned in the
| deed, it is not absolutely necessary they
should be. A deed of land ordinarily
carries all the buildings on it belonging
to the grantor, whether mentioned or
not; and this rule includes the lumber
and timber of any old building which
has been taken or blown down and
been packed away for future use on the
farm. But if there be any buildings
on the farm built by some third person,
with the farmers leave, the deed would
not convey these, since the buildings
are personal property, and do not be-
long to the landowner to convey. The
real owners thereof might move them
off, although the purchaser of the farm
supposed he was buying and paying
for all the buildings on it. His only
remedy in such case would be against
the party selling the premises. As a
part of the buildings conveyed, Of
course tho window-blinds are included,
even if they be at the time taken of
and carried to the painters shop to be
painted. It would be otherwise If they
had been newly purchased and brought
into the house, but not yet attached or
fitted to it. Lightning rods also go
with the house if the farmer has any on
his house. A furnace in the cellar,
brick or portable, is considered part
| of the house, but an ordinary stove
| with loose pipe running into the CHM
ney is not, while a renge set in brick
work is. Mantel-pieces so attached to
the chimney as not to be removed with
out marring the plastering go with the
house, but, if merely resting on brack-
cts, they may be taken away by the
former owner without legal liability.
The pumps, sinks, etc., fastened to the
buildings are part of it in law, and so
are the water pipes connected there
| with bringing water from distant
spring. If the farmer has iron kettles
set in brick work near his barn for
cooking food for his stock, or similar
uses, the deed of his farm covers them
also, as likewise the bell attached to his
barn to call his men to dinner. If he
INDUCES in any ornamental statues,
vases, etc, resting on the groLnd by
their own weight merely, and sells his
estate without reservation, these things
! go with the land. >,f 5~-''