Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-10-15
What q Deed Conveys.

Inc following extracts from an ad.
dress delivered before the Massachu-
setts State Board of Agriculture, by
Hon. E. H. Bennett, will be of in
terest to our land owners:
Of course every one knows it con-
veys the fence standing on the farm,
but all might not think it also includ-
ed the fencing stuff, posts, rails,
etc., which had once been used in
the fence, but had been taken down
and piled up for the future use again
in the same place. But new fence
material just bought and never at
tached 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 earn
yard, or in compost heap on 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 collected it together i'd .
heap by itself. Growing crops also
pass by the deed Of q farm, unless
they are expressly reserved, and
when it is intended to reserve them,
it should be so stated in the deed
itself; mere oral agreement to that
effeyt would not be valid In law.
Another mode is to stipulate that
possession 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 build
ings on the farm, though generally
mentioned in the dsed, it is not ab-
solutely necessary they should be.
A deed of land ordinarily carries all
the buildings on i belonging to the
grautor, whether mentioned or not;
and this rule includes the lumber
and timber ofany old building which
has been taken or blown down and
been packed away for future use on
the farm. But if there be any build
ines on the farm built by some third
person, with the farmers leave, the
deed would not convey these, since
the bsildings are personal property,
and do not belong to the landowner
to convey. The real owners thero-
of might move them off, although
the purchaser of the farm supposed
he was buying and paying for all
buildings on it. His only remedy
in such case would be against the
party selling the premises. As o
part of the buildings conveyed, Of
course tho blinds are includ-
ed, even if they be at the time taken
off and carried to the painters shop
to be painted. 1t would be other
wise il they had been newly pur-
chased and brought into the house
but not yet attached or fitted to it,
Lightning rods also go with the
house il the farmer has any on the
house. A furnace in the cellar,
brick or portable, is considered O
part of the house, but an ordinary
stove with loose pipe running into
the chimney is not, while a range
set in brick work is. Mantle pieces
so attached to the chimney as not to
be removed without marring the
plastering 60 with the house, but il
merely resting on brackets they may
be taken away by the former owner
without legal liability. The pumps,
sinks, etc., fastened to the building
are a part of it in law, and SO are
the water pipes connected therewith
bringing water from distant spring
If the farmer has iron kettles set in
brick work near the barn for cooking
food for his stock, or similar uses,
the deed of his farm covers them
also, as likewise the bell attached tc
bis barn to call his mon to dinner
If he indulges in any ornamental
statutes, vases, etc., resting on the
ground by their own weight merely,
and sells his estate without reserva'
ton, these things so with the land.