The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-05-30
Glre 6arnler.
what a Deed Conveys.


Judge Bennett, Of Massachusetts, before
the State Board Of Agriculture, said, in
substance, that deed conveys the fence
standing on farm, 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 in the same place. But
new fence materials, just bought and never
attached to the soil, will not pass. Stand
ing trees pass as part of the land; so do
trees blown or cut down aud still left in the
woods where they fell, but not if cut and
corded up for sale, the wood has then be-
come personal property. Manure in the
barnyard, or in compact heap ready for
immediate use, the buyer ordinarily takes
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
in heap by itself. Growing crops pass
by the deed of farm, unless they are ex-
pressly reserved, and when it is intended
to reserve those it should be so stated in
the deed itself; mere oral agreement
would not be valid in law Another mode
Is to s5;rulate that possession is not to be
given until some future day, in which case
the crops or.p,auure may be removed before
that time. As to the buildings on a 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 grant
or; whether mentioned or not; and this rule
includes the lumber and timber of any old
building which has been taken or blown
down and 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 per
sonal property and do not belong 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, the
window blinds are included, even if they
be at the time taken off and carried to the
painters shop to be painted. 1t would be
otherwise if they had been newly purchased
and brought into the house but not yet
attached or fitted to it. Lightning-rods
90 with. the house. A furnace in the eel
lar, brick or portable, is considered part of
the house, but an ordinary stove with
loose pipe running into the chimney is not,
while range set in brickwork is. Man
tlepieces, so attached to the chimney as not
to be removed without marring the plast-
ering, 90 with the house, but if merely
resting on brackets they may be taken
away Pumps, sinks, etc, fastened to the
building are part Of it in law, and so are
the water-pipes connected Herewith bring
ing water from a distant spring If the
farmer had iron kettles set in brickwork
near his barn for cooking food for his stock,
or similar uses, the deed of his farm covers
them as likewise the bell attached to his
barn to call bis men to dinner IF he in
dulges in any ornamental statues, vases,
etc., resting on the ground by their own
weight, and sells his estate without reser
walton, these things go with the land.