The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-03-16
What a Deed Conveys.

The following extracts from an address
delivered before the Massachusetts State
Board of Agriculture by Hon. E. FL.
Bennett, Will be of interest to our land
owners.
OF course every one knows it conveys
the fence standing on the farm, but all
might not think 1t 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 decomposed heap
on the field, ready for immediate use,
the buyer ordi 4arily 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 farm, unless they
are expressly reserved, and when
it is Intended to observe those it should
be so stated in the deed itself; a mere
oral agreement to that effect 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 re-
moved before that time. AS to the
buildings on the farm, though generally
mentioned in the deed, it is not absor
lutely necessary that they should be. A
deed of land ordinarily carries all the
buildings on it belonging to the granter,
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 prop
erty, and do not belong to the land
owner to convey. The real owners
thereof might move them off, although
the purchaser of the farm supposed that
he was buying and paying for the build
ings on it. His only remedy in such q
case would be against the party selling
the premises. AS part of the buildings
conveyed Of course the window blinds
are included, even if they be at the time
taken off and carried off to the painters
shop to be painted. 1t would be other
wise if they had been newly purchased
and brought into the house, but not yet
attached 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 a part of the
house, but an ordinary stove with loose
pipe running into the chimney
is not, while range set IN
brick work is. Mantel pieces so
attached to the chimney as not 10 be
removed without marring the plastering
go with the house, but if merely resting
on brackets 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 Herewith
bringing water from distant spring. Ii
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 orna-
mental statues. vases, ETC., resting on the
ground by their own weight merely, and
sells his estate without reservation, these
things go with the land.
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