Opinion ID: 1513201
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: proper conveyance

Text: The Legislature also required that the land be deeded [to the Regents] by proper conveyance, [and] free and clear of debt, to the State. We agree with the Court of Civil Appeals that the deeds from Ector County to the Regents are proper conveyances. There is no question that they are conveyances, and we think they were proper conveyances. The Legislature has prescribed a sufficient form of conveyance in Article 1292. There is no contention that the deeds are not sufficient under that statute. In Dority v. Dority, 96 Tex. 215, 71 S.W. 950 (1903), this court defined a conveyance as any writing which is necessary to convey land, and which purports to convey any estate or interest in land. The plaintiffs, with skill, argue that because in their opinion the county did not act with propriety in acquiring the 280 acres by purchase as a park, issuing county time warrants to pay for a park, acquiring the land and then giving it away to The University for university purposes, the conveyance was not proper. We ascribe to the legislature, in calling for a proper conveyance, one which was properly drawn (including a correct description of the property), properly executed and properly delivered. The plaintiffs do not question any of these matters. We are cited to no case giving the words proper conveyance any other meaning, and we have found none. The validity, or propriety, of the actions of the Commissioners Court is not properly before us in this action in which only the plaintiff citizens and the State Comptroller are parties. We hold that the deeds from the County to the Regents were proper conveyances.